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PRESIDENT OF THE INSTITUTE, CHAIRMAN AND OTHER MEMBERS OF
THE COUNCIL AS ON MARCH 31, 2012

President: Prof. M.G.K. Menon, FRS
1. Chairman: Shri Pranab Mukherjee, Hon’ble Finance Minister, Government of India.

2. Director: Prof. Bimal K. Roy.
Representatives of Government of India

3. Shri S.K. Das, DG, CSO, Govt. of India, Ministry of Statistics & Programme Implementation, New
Delhi.
4. Dr. K.L. Prasad, Adviser, Govt. of India, Ministry of Finance, New Delhi.
5. Dr. Rajiv Sharma, Scientist ‘G’ & Adviser, (International Cooperation), Department of Science &
Technology, Govt. of India, New Delhi.
6. Shri Deepak K. Mohanty, Executive Director, Reserve Bank of India, Mumbai.
7. Shri Anant Kumar Singh, Joint Secretary (HE), Government of India, Ministry of Human Resource
Development, Department of Higher Education, New Delhi.
Representative of ICSSR
8. Dr. Ranjit Sinha, Member Secretary, Indian Council of Social Science Research, New Delhi.
Representatives of INSA
9. Prof. V.D. Sharma, FNA, Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai.
10. Prof. B.L.S. Prakasa Rao, FNA, Dr. Homi J Bhabha Chair Professor, Department of Mathematics and
Statistics, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad.
11. Prof. T.P. Singh, FNA, DBT Distinguished Biotechnologist, Department of Biophysics, All India Institute
of Medical Sciences, New Delhi.
12. Prof. Somnath Dasgupta, FNA, Department of Earth Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education &
Research, West Bengal.
Representative of the Planning Commission

13. Shri B.D. Virdi, Adviser, Perspective Planning Division of Planning Commission, New Delhi.
Representative of the University Grants Commission

14. Prof. S. Mahendra Dev, Director, Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai.
Scientists co-opted by the Council

15. Prof. Kaushik Basu, Chief Economic Adviser, Department of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Finance,
Government of India, New Delhi.
16. Prof. R. Balasubramanian, Director, Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai.
Elected representatives of the Institute members not employed in the Institute

17. Prof. D. Dutta Majumder, FNA, Emeritus Professor, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata.
18. Shri Ajay Kumar Ghosh, Kolkata.
19. Dr. Siddani Bhaskara Rao, Director, C.R. Rao Advanced Institute of Mathematics, Hyderabad.
Elected representatives of the employees of the Institute

20. Shri Somnath Ray, Representative of the Scientific Workers.
21. Shri Prabir Chattoraj, Representative of the Non-Scientific Workers.
Officers of the Institute

22. Prof. Goutam Mukherjee, Professor-in-Charge, Theoretical Statistics and Mathematics Division.
23. Prof. Subhamoy Maitra, Professor-in-Charge, Applied Statistics Division.
24. Prof. Madhura Swaminathan, Professor-in-Charge, Social Sciences Division.
25. Prof. Sisir Roy, Professor-in-Charge, Physics and Earth Sciences Division.
26. Dr. Anjana Dewanji, Professor-in-Charge, Biological Sciences Division.
27. Prof. Subhas Chandra Nandy, Professor-in-Charge, Computer and Communication Sciences Division.
28. Shri Amitava Bandyopadhyay, Head, SQC & OR Division.
29. Prof. Satya P. Das, Head, Delhi Centre.
30. Prof. N.S.N. Sastry, Head, Bangalore Centre.
31. Prof. P.S.S.N.V.P. Rao, Acting Head, Chennai Centre.
32. Prof. Bhabani Prasad Sinha, Dean of Studies.
Non-Member Secretary
Shri S.K. Iyer, Chief Executive (Administration & Finance).
INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE
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EIGHTIETH ANNUAL REPORT
CONTENTS
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Director’s Report i
Brief History of the Institute iii

Part I. Teaching & Training, Research and Publications
1. Teaching & Training 1
Degrees and other Courses 1

Ph.D. Degrees Awarded 3
International Statistical Education Centre 7
2. Research and other Scientific Activities 8
Theoretical Statistics and Mathematics Division 8

Stat-Math Unit (SMU), Kolkata 8
Stat-Math Unit (SMU), Delhi 10
Stat-Math Unit (SMU), Bangalore 11
Applied Statistics Division 13
Applied Statistics Unit (ASU) 13

Bayesian and Interdisciplinary Research Unit (BIRU) 17
Sampling and Official Statistics Unit (SOSU) 21
Computer and Communication Sciences Division 23

Advanced Computing and Microelectronics Unit (ACMU) 23
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Unit (CVPRU) 27
Documentation Research and Training Centre (DRTC), Bangalore 30
Electronics and Communication Sciences Unit (ECSU) 32
Machine Intelligence Unit (MIU) 34
Systems Science and Informatics Unit (SSIU), Bangalore 40
Physics and Earth Sciences Division 43
Geological Studies Unit (GSU) 43

Physics and Applied Mathematics Unit (PAMU) 47
Biological Sciences Division 51

Agricultural & Ecological Research Unit (AERU) 51
Biological Anthropology Unit (BAU) 56
Human Genetics Unit (HGU) 57
Social Sciences Division 58
Economic Research Unit (ERU) 58

Economic Analysis Unit (EAU), Bangalore 66
Linguistic Research Unit (LRU) 67
Planning Unit (PU), Delhi 69
Population Studies Unit (PSU) 71
Psychology Research Unit (PRU) 74
Sociological Research Unit (SRU) 78
Statistical Quality Control and Operations Research Division 78
SQC & OR Unit, Bangalore 78

SQC & OR Unit, Chennai 79
SQC & OR Unit, Coimbatore 79
SQC & OR Unit, Delhi 82
SQC & OR Unit, Hyderabad 82
SQC & OR Unit, Kolkata 84
Library, Documentation and Information Sciences Division 87

Library, Kolkata 87
Library, Delhi 89
Library, Bangalore 91
Library, Tezpur 92
Library, Chennai 93
Centre for Soft Computing Research: A National Facility 94
Computer and Statistical Services Centre 99
3. Projects 100
Internally Funded Projects 100

Ongoing Projects 100
Completed Projects 103
Externally Funded Projects 105

North East Projects 115

4. Symposia, Conferences, Workshops, Lectures and Seminars 116
Symposia and Conferences 116

Workshops and Training Programme 117
Lectures and Seminars 122
5. Publication of Sankhyā 141
6. Scientific Papers and Publications 142
Books Published 142

Papers Published in Journals 145
Papers Published in Conference Proceedings 177
Papers Published in Books 193
Part II. Visiting Scientists, Honours, Awards and Assignments
7. Visiting Scientists 200
8. Honours and Awards 210
9. Editorial and other Scientific Assignments 212
Editorial Assignments 212

Scientific Assignments/Academic Visits Abroad 216
Scientific Assignments/Academic Visits in India 225
Part III. Administration and Office Bearers
10. General Administration 243
11. List of Members of the Academic Council and other 250

Committees of the Institute as on 31 March 2012
Part IV. Audited Statement of Accounts and Auditor’s Report for the
year 2011-2012
Director’s Report
It is my privilege to present the Annual Report of the Institute for the year 2011-2012. This is the
second time I am presenting before you the Annual Report of the Institute after I assumed the charge
of the Director.
As on previous occasions the Institute is proud to present the names of very talented faculty members
who have earned honours and awards since last February. They have not only won accolades for
themselves but set even higher standards for others to follow suit. A partial list of such recipients along
with the honours and awards received is as follows. Professor Palash Sarkar has received the Shanti
Swarup Bhatnagar prize in Mathematical Sciences for 2011, the highest honour awarded to an Indian
Scientist. Professor Bimal Roy has been elected Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences,
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Allahabad. He has also received the 19 Dewang Mehta Business School Award for outstanding
contribution to education. Professor B.B. Chaudhuri has been elected a Fellow of the Third World
Academy of Sciences (TWAS). Professor B.P. Sinha has been awarded the M.K. Singal Memorial
Award by the Indian Science Congress Association for significant and lifetime contributions to the
development of science & technology. Professor Sushmita Mitra has been elected IEEE Fellow from
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1 January, 2012. Professor Sanghamitra Bandopadhyay has been elected Fellow of the Indian
National Academy of Engineering (INAE), 2012. Dr. Pradipta Maji has bagged the INSA Medal for
Young Scientists Award from Indian National Science Academy. Professor Rahul Roy has been
elected Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences.
I take great pride to announce that Prof. S.R.S. Varadhan, an outstanding alumnus of our Institute
presently with New York University has been awarded the National Medal of Science, USA, this year,
the highest honour bestowed by the US Government on scientists, engineers and inventors.
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The fourth centre of ISI, the North-East Centre at Tezpur was inaugurated on 24 July, 2011. The
inaugural programme was graced by Sri Pranab Mukherjee, Chairman, ISI Council and Hon'ble
Finance Minister, Government of India; Sri Srikant Jena, Union Minister of State (Independent
Charge), Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation; Sri Tarun Kumar Gogoi, Chief Minister
of Assam. A one-year post-graduate diploma course on Statistical Methods with Applications, has
been started in the centre, presently housed at the Tezpur University campus. The course, apart from
the normal curriculum will focus on the development of governmental statistical system in the North-
Eastern states. A plot of land measuring about 25 acres have been acquired at Punioni near Tezpur
University where the permanent North-East Centre of the Institute at Tezpur, Assam would come up.
A two-year Master's Degree in Statistics (M. Stat.) has been introduced as part of the curriculum
expansion programme at the Chennai Centre of the Institute from July this year. Recruitment of faculty
is underway both at the Chennai and Tezpur Centres. Regarding procurement of land for setting up of
the permanent campus of the Chennai Centre, we have appealed to the Government of Tamil Nadu
and rigorous efforts are being made in this regard.
The D. Basu Gold Medal for the most outstanding student in B. Stat. (Hons.) has been instituted from
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this year. The award was given in the Forty Sixth Convocation held on 12 January, 2012 for the two
batches of 2007-2010 and 2008-2011. I am thankful to Prof. Anirban Dasgupta of Purdue University
for his efforts to this effect.
A collaborative programme between the Department of Science & Technology (DST) of India and the
National Science Foundation (NSF) of the USA has been flagged off with a view to connect leading
research institutes of India and USA. I am happy to announce that Indian Statistical Institute has been
chosen as one of the four nodes in India.
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An International Conference on Contemporary issues and Applications of Statistics (CIAS 2012) has
just been organized in the Institute. The Conference was attended among others by academic
stalwarts like Prof. Jayanta Kumar Ghosh of Purdue University, USA; Dr. Andreas Ziegler of University
of Luebeck, Germany; Prof. Pranab Kumar Sen of University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
and Prof. Douglas Simpson of University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. The Conference had
special sessions of Application of Statistics in Government and Industry.
The Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) and International Growth Centre (IGC) are jointly organizing a
workshop on the West Bengal Economy which has taken off from yesterday. Professor Joseph Stiglitz,
noted economist and Nobel Laureate was a participant and a keynote speaker at the workshop. The
workshop was also enriched by the deliberations of Professor Pranab Bardhan of University of
Berkeley, USA. They apart, people's representatives, corporate personalities, Government officials
and other eminent academicians from India and abroad have graced the workshop with their august
presence.
Responding to the requirements from the Government of India, the Institute has set up a new research
unit called, "Sampling and Official Statistics Unit" (SOSU) at the Headquarters in Kolkata on 1st
March, 2012. This was also emphasized by Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh in his speech on the
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occasion of Platinum Jubilee Celebration of the Institute on 24 December, 2006.
With a view to academic collaboration and exchanges, development of research etc., several
Memorandum of Understandings (MoUs) have been signed between the Institute and North Carolina
State University, USA; School of Computing, National University of Singapore; The Instituto
Technologico Autonomo De Mexico (ITAM); Ecole Polytechnique Montreal; International Centre for
Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB); Birsa Agricultural University, Ranchi and Korea
Institute for International Economic Policy etc.
The Institute has undertaken a large number of externally funded projects over the years. At present,
there are about 100 such projects in the Institute. Major funding agencies of the projects are DST, DIT,
DBT, DAE, NAIP, ISRO, NBHM, Saha Institute, CSIR, INSA, UNDP, Microsoft, Department of Tourism
(GOI), NABARD, DRDO, LSE (UK), Department of Science & Technology (Govt. of W.B.), Planning
Commission, US Army, ICMR etc.
Video conferencing facilities have been introduced in the Institute connecting all the centres except
Chennai. The centres so equipped will be able to establish contacts with other Institutes, if the need
arises. Conducting meetings and holding classes through this system by giving a virtual atmosphere
has already started, which will eventually cut on cost and time. E-governance is also round the corner
and will be implemented soon in the institute making the day-to-day governance more techno-friendly
and accessible specially to the other centres and aspirants to the Institute.
An initiative has been taken by the Institute to prepare an archive comprising all the Ph.D. thesis
produced so far by the Institute. The work is near completion and will become operational by the
middle of the year.
I am also grateful to Professor M.G.K. Menon, President, Indian Statistical Institute and Shri Pranab
Mukherjee, Chairman, ISI Council and Hon’ble Finance Minister, Government of India for their kind
cooperation, help and guidance. They have been a pillar of strength to the Institute. I am also grateful
to all Council members, Dr. T.C.A. Anant, Secretary, Ministry of Statistics and Programme
Implementation, Government of India and all other officers of the Administrative Ministry for their kind
cooperation and advice. I am also thankful to all office bearers and all the workers of the Institute for
their cooperation in their respective domains of activities.
March, 31, 2012 Bimal K. Roy
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A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE INSTITUTE
In the 1920’s, Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis, then a Professor at Presidency College, Calcutta
conducted several studies employing statistical methods with results that vindicated his ideas about
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the efficacy and possibilities of the emerging science of Statistics. In a meeting on 17 December
1931 presided by Sir R. N. Mukherjee, the first President of the Institute, the Indian Statistical Institute
(ISI) was formally established and Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis was appointed the honorary
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Secretary. The Indian Statistical Institute was registered on 28 April, 1932, as a non-government and
non-profit distributing learned society under the Societies’ Registration Act No. XXI of 1860. The
Institute is now registered under the West Bengal Societies Registration Act XXVI of 1961, amended
in 1964. It has the following objectives:
In the 1920’s, Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis, then a Professor at Presidency College, Calcutta
conducted several studies employing statistical methods with results that vindicated his ideas about
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the efficacy and possibilities of the emerging science of Statistics. In a meeting on 17 December
1931 presided by Sir R. N. Mukherjee, the first President of the Institute, the Indian Statistical Institute
(ISI) was formally established and Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis was appointed the honorary
Secretary. The Indian Statistical Institute was registered on 28th April, 1932, as a non-government and
non-profit distributing learned society under the Societies’ Registration Act No. XXI of 1860. The
Institute is now registered under the West Bengal Societies Registration Act XXVI of 1961, amended
in 1964. It has the following objectives:
(i) To promote the study and dissemination of knowledge of Statistics, to develop statistical
theory and methods, and their use in research and practical applications generally, with
special reference to problems of planning for national development and social welfare;
(ii) To undertake research in various fields of natural and social sciences with a view to the
mutual development of Statistics and these sciences;
(iii) To provide for, and undertake, the collection of information, investigations, projects, and
operational research for purposes of planning and the improvement of efficiency of
management and production.
(iv) To undertake any other ancillary activities in fulfillment of the objectives (i), (ii) and (iii).
The Institute started functioning initially from a room of the Presidency College with enduring support
from a number of distinguished personalities and devoted scholars in Kolkata. Over the first two
decades, which turned out to be a glorious chapter in the annals of Indian science and institution
building, the ISI embarked upon a series of pioneering programmes involving the application of
Statistics in search of solution of the urgent and live problems of the country. Such programmes
included innovative projects on sample surveys of yield and land utilisation of crops, socio-economic
after-effects of Bengal famine and problems of flood research. These innovations and methodological
research have since become classics in Statistics. At the same time, the training of scientific personnel
began to grow. This also encouraged high level research and brought into focus the need for
publication of the research results, for which Sankhyā, the first international journal of the country in
Statistics, came into being in 1933.
Apart from the impact made in the world of Statistics, earning for the Institute the patronage of Sir
Ronald A. Fisher, the brilliant choice of the area of surveys, their social and national relevance held
secured the Institute to a pivotal place in the task of nation-building when India became independent.
Led by Professor Mahalanobis and a very able group of younger statisticians including R.C. Bose,
S.N. Roy and C.R. Rao, the Institute was poised to take on the larger role. The institute is proud to
have C.R. Rao, who is among the world leaders in statistical science over the last six decades and still
active at the age of 91 as the Director of the Center for Multivariate Analysis at Pennsylvania State
University, USA, in its list of alumni.
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Brief History
The 1950s saw the Institute establishing (i) a full fledged research and training school in Statistics and
Probability, with its application in natural and social sciences, (ii) a planning wing entrusted with the
formulation of the Second Five-Year Plan of India, (iii) publication of Sankhyā, (iv) the National Sample
Survey wing engaging in comprehensive socio-economic data collection for the nation, (v) a string of
Statistical Quality Control units for promoting the quality movement at various industrial centres in the
country, (vi) a collaboration with the International Statistical Institute to train Government statisticians
from Asia and Africa, and (vii) an Electronic Computer Laboratory that was responsible for
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developing (a) the 1 mechanical hand computing machine, (b) the 1 Analog computer, (c) the 1
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Punched Card storing machine and (d) the 1 Solid State Computer in India, to name some of the
principal activities. In 1954 Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, the then Prime Minister of India, entrusted
Professor Mahalanobis and ISI with the responsibility of preparing the draft Second Five-Year Plan for
the country. The draft submitted by Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis and the planning models
formulated by him and his colleagues have since been regarded as major contributions to economic
planning in India. In 1956, the Institute installed the first electronic computer in the country. In 1961,
the ISI, in collaboration with Jadavpur University, undertook the design, development and fabrication
of a fully transistorized digital computer, called ISI-JU-1, which was commissioned in 1966. The
Institute, from its formative period till present times, received as guests eminent scientists, some of
whom were Nobel Laureates. Besides Ronald A. Fisher, J.B.S. Haldane and Walter A. Shewhart, the
luminaries included Frederic and Irene Curie, Neils Bohr, A.N. Kolmogorov, P.M.S. Blackett, J.D.
Bernal, Joan Robinson and Genedi Taguchi. In recent times, the visit of Amartya K. Sen, Robert
Aumann, Lotfi A. Zadeh and S.R.S. Varadhan, 2007 Abel Prize winner for his contributions to
probability theory and an alumnus of the institute, may be specially mentioned.
The formal recognition came in December 1959, when Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru piloted in the
Parliament the enactment of the Indian Statistical Institute Act of 1959, which designated ISI as an
‘Institution of national importance’. The activities steadily grew, existing interests became more broad-
based and a number of science units were created in the interest of live interaction between Statistics
and Natural and Social Sciences. Empowered by the Act to award degrees, the Institute started the B.
Stat. and M. Stat. courses. An excellent library was founded at Kolkata and the Documentation
Research and Training Centre began functioning in Bangalore. Other developments in infrastructure
also began.
During 1971-72, two decisions of the Government of India produced serious repercussions on the
functioning of the ISI. One was de-linking of the Institute from the Perspective Planning Division of the
Planning Commission in 1971, while the other was the separation of National Sample Survey from the
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ISI and its take-over by the Central Government in 1972. Professor Mahalanobis passed away on 28
June, 1972. It was a critical period for the Institute. To overcome the problem, the ISI sought to strike a
judicious balance between the individual academic work on truly fundamental problems and the work
that called for a greater engagement with the social and economic problems of the country. The
members of the Institute, under the Chairmanship of Shri P.N. Haksar, held a Special General Body
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Meeting on 26 July, 1974 and amended the Memorandum of Association and the Regulations of the
Institute, encouraging more inter-disciplinary research and enhancing active participation of the
scientists of the ISI in decision-making process of the Institute. The organisational amendments were
implemented, with the concurrence of Government of India, in August, 1976. The various research
units in natural, social and computer sciences were grouped under a number of scientific Divisions.
Over the decades diversity in research thrusts began to grow manifold, with emphasis on Computer
Science and application of Statistics in the new areas of research in natural and social sciences. Two
centres, one at Delhi and one at Bangalore were created with full-fledged research and teaching
programmes. The Delhi Centre, initially housed within the Planning Commission premises, was started
in 1974, and shifted to its present campus in 1975. The Bangalore Centre was conceived by Prof. P.C.
Mahalanobis during 1960s. With the Statistical Quality Control unit functioning in Bangalore from 1956,
and Documentation Research and training Centre from 1962, Professor Mahalanobis thought of
starting a centre of ISI around the mid-sixties. However, the activities of the Bangalore Centre started
in September 1978 in a rented building under the Directorship of Professor G. Kallianpur. The various
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Brief History
units moved to the present campus in May 1985 and in September 1996, the Bangalore Centre was
formally declared as a Centre of ISI. The Chennai centre of the Institute came into being on 26th July,
2008 and has to its credit several theoretical and applied research work in Statistics and Mathematics,
and many of the projects undertaken have been breakthrough applications. A North-East Centre of
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the Institute has been established at Tezpur, Assam on 23 July, 2011 and it is also expected to focus
on such diversity of teaching, training and research. This centre is currently housed in Tezpur
University campus. A new unit, called the Sampling and Official Statistics Unit (SOSU), has been
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created at the Headquarters in Kolkata on 1 March, 2012 to cater to the growing demand for research
and training in sampling and official statistics. At present the Institute is fully funded by the Ministry of
Statistics and Programme Implementation, Government of India. The support and encouragement of
the Ministry are among the major factors, which helped the Institute to sustain its excellence.
The present structure of eight divisions has been arrived at through some further changes. Recently
there have been some changes. Systems Science and Informatics Unit (SSIU) has been started as a
part of the Computer and Communication Sciences Division (CCSD) at ISI Bangalore centre in August
2009. The Documentation Research and Training Centre (DRTC) has been made a part of CCSD.
The Indian Statistical Institute Act of 1959 was amended by the Parliament in 1995 to empower the
Institute to award degrees/Diplomas not only in Statistics, but also in Mathematics, Quantitative
Economics, Computer Science and such other subjects related to Statistics as may be determined by
the Institute from time to time. Several new courses have also been added since: M. Tech. in
Computer Science, M. Tech. in Quality, Reliability and Operations Research, M.S. in Quantitative
Economics, B. Math. and M. Math.
In conclusion, a list of the distinguished scientists and statesmen who have served the Institute during
the 80 years of its existence in the capacities of President, Chairman or Director is presented. A list of
recipients of the honorary D. Sc. degree given by the Institute is also provided.
Presidents of the Institute

1 Sir Rajendra Nath Mookerjee 1932-35
2 Shri E. C. Benthall 1936-37
3 Shri James Reid-Kay 1938
4 Shri Badridas Goenka 1939-41
5 Dr. Nalini Ranjan Sarkar 1942-43
6 Dr. Chintaman D. Deshmukh 1944-1963
7 Shri Y. B. Chavan 1964-66
8 Prof. Satyendra Nath Bose 1967-75
9 Shri Subimal Dutt 1976-89
10 Prof. M.G.K. Menon 1990-till date
Chairmen of the Institute
1 Shri B. Rama Rao 1954

2 Shri D. N. Mitra 1955-63
3 Shri K. P. S. Menon 1964-70
4 Shri S. C. Roy 1971
5 Dr. Atma Ram 1972
6 Shri. P. N. Haksar 1973-97
7 Dr. Bimal Jalan 1998-2001
8 Dr. N. R. Madhava Menon 2002-03
9 Shri Pranab Mukherjee 2004-2012
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Directors of the Institute
1 Prof. P. C. Mahalanobis Dec 1931 - June 1972

2 Prof. C. R. Rao July 1972 - June 1976
3 Prof. G. Kallianpur July 1976 - Sept 1978
4 Prof. B. P. Adhikari Aug 1979 - Oct 1983
5 Prof. Ashok Maitra April 1984 - Jan 1987
6 Prof. J. K. Ghosh Jan 1987 - Jan 1992
7 Prof. B. L. S. Prakasa Rao Jun 1992 - Feb 1995
8 Prof. S. B. Rao July 1995 - July 2000
9 Prof. K. B. Sinha Aug 2000 - July 2005
10 Prof. S. K. Pal Aug 2005 - July 2010
11 Prof. Bimal K. Roy Aug 2010 - till date
List of persons awarded the D.Sc. (Honoris Causa) by the Institute
February 1962 Prof. Satyendra Nath Bose, Prof. Ronald A. Fisher,

Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, Dr. Walter A. Shewhart
April 1962 Prof. A.N. Kolmogorov
May 1965 Dr. Chintaman Dwarkanath Deshmukh
December 1974 Prof. Raj Chandra Bose, Dr. M.V. Keldysh, Prof. Jerzy Neyman
February 1977 Prof. Harald Cramer
February 1978 Shri Morarji Desai, Prof. L.V. Kantorovich
December 1989 Prof. C.R. Rao
January 2001 Prof. Gopinath Kallianpur
February 2004 Prof. S.R. Srinivasa Varadhan
March 2006 Prof. L.A. Zadeh
December 2006 Dr. Manmohan Singh
February 2011 Dr. Subhas Mukherjee (Posthumously)
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1. TEACHING AND TRAINING
A brief account of teaching and training activities of the Teaching and Training Division during the
academic session 2011-2012 is given below.
Degree, Associateship and Training Courses
During the academic session 2011-2012, a total of 9851 candidates applied for admission and were
called for written selection tests for various courses offered by the Institute, viz., B. Stat. (Hons.), B.
Math. (Hons.), M. Stat., M. Math., Master of Science (M.S.) in Quantitative Economics, Master of
Science (M.S.) in Library and Information Science, M. Tech. in Computer Science, M. Tech. in Quality,
Reliability and Operations Research, P G Diploma in Statistical Methods with Applications, Research
Fellowships in Statistics, Mathematics, Quantitative Economics, Computer Science, Quality,
Reliability and Operations Research, Biological Anthropology, Physics and Applied Mathematics,
Agriculture & Ecology, Sociology, Geology, Human Genetics, and Library and Information Science.
Admission tests were conducted at 21 different centres all over the country. A total of 7130 candidates
finally appeared for admission tests and a total of 650 candidates qualified in the written tests, and
were called for interviews. Based on the performance in the written tests, interview and the academic
records, 272 candidates were offered admission to various courses during the academic session
under review.
The annual examinations for all the regular courses during 2010-2011 academic session were held
during May 2011. The 2011-12 academic session commenced from July, 2011.
The number of candidates admitted to the different degree programmes and in Junior Research
Fellowship during 2011-2012 and the number of students who passed the annual examinations in
2011, are given in Table 1.
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Till 31 March, 2012, 197 trainees of Engineering and Technology courses from various
Universities/Institutions (A. K. Choudhury School of Information Technology, Abacus Institute of
Engineering & Management, B. P. Poddar Institute of Management and Technology, B. V.
Bhoomaradoi College of Engineering & Technology – Hubli, Barrackpore Rastraguru Surendranath
College, Bengal College of Engineering & Technology, Bengal Engineering & Science University-
Shibpur, Bethune College, Birla Institute of Technology, Calcutta Institute of Technology, Camellia
Institute of Technology, CMR College of Engineering & Technology – Hyderabad, Dr. B. C. Roy
Engineering College – Durgapur, Dream Institute of Technology, Future Institute of Engineering and
Management – Kolkata, Gittam Institute of Technology – Visakhapatnam, Government College of
Engineering & Ceramic Technology, Guru Nanak Institute of Technology, Heritage Institute of
Technology, Himalayan Pharmacy Institute – Sikkim, Hyderabad Central University, IERCEM Institute
of Information Technology, Indian Institute of Technology – Bombay, Indian Institute of Technology –
Kharagpur, Indian Institute of Technology - Roorkee, Indian School of Mines - Dhanbad, Jadavpur
University, Majhighariani Institute of Technology & Science – Orissa, Meghnad Saha Institute of
Technology, Narula Institute of Technology, National Institute of Technology – Calicut, National
Institute of Technology - Durgapur, National Institute of Technology – Jamshedpur, National Institute
of Technology – Rourkela, National Institute of Technology- Tiruchirapalli, National Institute of
Technology – Warangal, Netaji Subhas Engineering College, Oriental Institute of Science and
Technology, Peoples Education Society-Institute of Technology – Bangalore, RCC Institute of
Information Technology, Sastra University – Thanjavur, Seacom Engineering College, Siddaganga
Institute of Technology, Sikkim-Manipal Institute of Technology, Techno India, TKR College of
Engineering & Technology – Hyderabad, University of Calcutta, University of Delhi, University of
Kalyani, University of North Bengal, Vidyasagar University – Midnapore, West Bengal University of
Technology – Salt Lake, ) received two weeks/six weeks/two months/three months/four months and
six months Project training in different Units of the Institute, viz., ACMU, AERU, ASU, BAU, BIRU,
CSSC, CVPRU, DEAN’S OFFICE, ECSU, GSU, ISI – Hyderabad, MIU, PRU and SQC & OR under
the guidance of different faculty members of the Institute.
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Teaching and Training
Convocation
The 46th Convocation of the Indian Statistical Institute was held on 12th January, 2012, at 4.30 P.M.
It was started with The Vedic Hymn by ISI Club, followed by a welcome address by Prof. M.G.K.
Menon, President, ISI, annual review by Prof. Bimal K. Roy, Director, ISI, and Chairman’s Address by
Shri Pranab Mukherjee, Hon’ble Finance Minister, Govt. of India & Chairman of ISI Council. The
degrees were awarded to students by Prof. M.G.K. Menon. The medals to the recipients were
awarded by Shri Pranab Mukherjee. This was followed by a Convocation Address by Professor
Joseph E. Stiglitz, Nobel Laureate, Columbia University, USA. The Convocation was closed by Prof.
M.G.K. Menon, President, ISI, after a vote of thanks by Prof. B. P. Sinha, Dean of Studies, ISI, and the
National Anthem by ISI Club.
Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis Gold Medal for the most outstanding performance in M. Stat.
(Statistics) students (2009-2011) was given to:
Riddhipratim Basu
ISI Alumni Association Mrs. M.R. Iyer Memorial Medals for outstanding performances were given to:
B. Stat. (Hons.): Subhabrata Sen M. Stat.: Riddhipratim Basu
M. S. (QE): Swagata Majumder
ISI Alumni Association Rashi Ray Memorial Medals for outstanding performance in M. Tech. (CS)
(2009-2011) was given to:
Suvadip Mukherjee
ISI Alumni Association P.C. Panesar Gold Medal for outstanding performance in M. Math. (2009-
2011) was given to:
Charanya R
Sabyasachi Roy Memorial Gold Medal for the best project work in second year of M. Stat. (2009-
2011) Programme:
Bhaswar Bikram Bhattacharya
D. Basu Memorial Award for outstanding performance in B. Stat. (Hons.) (2007-2010) was given to:
Abhik Ghosh
D. Basu Gold Medal for outstanding presentation as well as performance in B. Stat. (Hons.) (2008-
2011) was given to:
Subhabrata Sen
Nikhilesh Bhattacharya Memorial Gold Medal for the best student in B. Stat. (Hons.) (2008-2011)
was given to:
Subhabrata Sen
Sunity Kumar Pal Gold Medal for the best dissertation in M. Tech. (CS) (2008-2010) was given to:
Minati De
Sunity Kumar Pal Gold Medal for the best dissertation in M. Tech. (CS) (2009-2011) was given to:
Ayan Nandy
TCS Award for the best dissertation in M. Tech. (CS) (2009-2011) was given to:
Suvadip Mukherjee
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Table 1
Number of students passed during 2011 and

number of existing students/fellows during 2011-2012.
Number of Students
Sl. Courses
Passed in the During the year
No.
Annual Exam. in 2011-12
2011
st
01. B.Stat. (Hons.) 1 year 30 29
nd
2 year 31 30
rd
3 year 41 31***
st
02. B.Math. (Hons.) 1 year 26 29
nd
2 year 12 26
3rd year 01 12
03. M.Math. 1st year 05 02
2nd year 07 05
st
04. M.Stat. 1 year 17 76*(41+20+15)
nd
2 year 40 17****
st
05. M.Stat. (Applications) 1 year - -
nd
2 year 10 -
st
06. M.S. (QE) 1 year 32***(11+21) 27***(14+13)
nd
2 year 27***(14+13) 33***(12**+11)
st
07. M.Tech. (CS) 1 year 07 25
nd
2 year 19 07
st
08. M.Tech. (QROR) 1 year 11 10
2nd year 08 11
09. M.S. (Library & Information Science) 1st year 05 05
2nd year 06 05
10. Post-Graduate Diploma in Statistical 1st year
- 04
Methods with Applications (DST)
10. Junior & Senior Research fellows &
23 185*****
Research Associates
Grand Total 358 569
* Total number, including Kolkata, Delhi and Chennai.
** A student repeating a year.
*** Total number, including Kolkata and Delhi.
****Two students repeating a year.
*****Total number, including Kolkata, Delhi, Bangalore and Hyderabad.
Table 2
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Ph.D. Degree awarded by the Institute in the 46 Convocation held on 12 January, 2012
Name of the
Sl. Title of the University
Name of the Fellow Subject Supervisor(s)
No Thesis /Institute
Studies on Public
Key and Identity-
Mahabir Prasad Jhanwar, Computer Prof. Rana Barua,
1. Based
M. Sc.(Pure Mathematics) Science SMU, ISI, Kolkata
Cryptographic ISI
(University of Calcutta)
Primitives.
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Distributed
Algorithms for Prof. Nabanita
Subhasis Bhattacharjee, Initialization & Computer Das,
2.
M. Tech. (CS) Topology Control Science ACMU, ISI,
ISI
(Indian Statistical Institute) in Wireless Ad Hoc Kolkata
Networks.
Location Problems
for Covering Dr. Sandip Das,
Arindam Karmakar, Computer
3. Demands: ACMU,
M.C.A. Science
Algorithms and ISI ISI, Kolkata
(University of North Bengal)
Applications.
On the Blackbox
Rishiraj Bhattacharyya, Reduction of Some Computer Prof. Bimal K. Roy,
4.
M. Tech. (CS) Cryptographic Science ASU,
ISI
(Indian Statistical Institute) Constructions. ISI, Kolkata
Spectrum
Estimation with
Prof. Debasis
Radhendushka Srivastava, Uniformly and
Sengupta,
5. M. Sc. Stochastically Statistics
ASU,
(Mathematical Statistics) Sampled Data:
ISI ISI, Kolkata
(University of Lucknow) Some Challenges
and Strategies.
Mahan Maharaj,
Abhijit Pal, Cannon-Thurston
6. Mathematics RKM Vivekananda
M. Sc. (Pure Mathematics) Maps and Relative ISI
University, Belur
(University of Calcutta) Hyperbolicity.
Ball Remotality in Prof. Pradipta
Tanmoy Paul,
Banach spaces Bandyopadhyay,
7. M. Sc. (Pure Mathematics) Mathematics
and Related ISI SMU,
(University of Calcutta)
Topics. ISI, Kolkata
Geometric
Invariants for a Prof. Gadadhar
Shibananda Biswas,
8. Class of Semi- Mathematics Misra,
M. Sc. (Mathematics)
Fredholm Hilbert ISI IISc., Bangalore
(IIT, Kanpur)
Modules.
Spectral Properties
of Large Prof. Arup Bose,
Koushik Saha,
9. Dimensional Mathematics SMU,
M. Sc. (Mathematics)
Random Circulant ISI ISI, Kolkata
(IIT, Bombay)
Type Matrices.
Simplicial Bredon- Prof. Goutam
Debasis Sen,
Illman Mukherjee,
10. M. Sc. (Mathematics) Mathematics
Cohomology with ISI SMU,
(Jadavpur University)
Local Coefficients. ISI, Kolkata
Quantum
Stochastic Flows:
Dr. Debashish
Biswarup Das, Trotter Product
11. Goswami, SMU,
M. Sc. (Mathematics) Formula, Dilations
Mathematics ISI ISI, Kolkata
(IIT, Kanpur) and Quantum
Brownian motion.
Some Results on
Santanu Sarkar, Prof. Subhamoy
Cryptanalysis of
12. M. Sc. (Mathematics) Maitra,
RSA and Mathematics ISI
(Visva-Bharati) ASU, ISI, Kolkata
Factorization.
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Essays on Regular
Variations in
Classical and Free Dr. Krishanu
Rajat Subhra Hazra, Setup: Randomly Maulik,
13. Mathematics ISI
M. Sc. (Pure Mathematics) Weighted Sums, SMU, ISI, Kolkata
(University of Calcutta) Products in CEVM
and Free
Subexponentiality.
Soumen Sarkar, Dr. Mainak
Some Aspects of
14. M. Sc. (Pure Mathematics) Mathematics ISI Poddar,
toric topology.
(University of Calcutta) SMU, ISI, Kolkata
Income Inequality
and Spatial Dr. Tridip Ray,
Namrata Gulati
Distribution: Firm Quantitative Planning Unit, ISI,
15. M. A. ISI
Location, Product Economics Delhi
(Delhi School of Economics,
Quality and
University of Delhi)
Welfare of Poor.
Essays on
Saptarshi Mukherjee, Prof. Arunava Sen,
Individual and Quantitative
16. M. A. ISI Planning Unit, ISI,
Collective Economics
(Kalyani University) Delhi
Decision-Making.
Table 3
Research Fellows of ISI who have been awarded Ph.D. degree by Academic Bodies other than
ISI during 2011- 12 for work done in the ISI
Sl.
Name of the
No Name of the Fellow Title of the Thesis University
Supervisor
Productivity of baby corn
(Zea mays L.) – under
1. different agronomical University of Dr. Pabitra Banik,
Ravi Chandra Sharma practices in eastern plateau Calcutta AERU, ISI
region.
Prof. V.K.
2. Household incomes in rural University of Ramachandran,
Aparajita Bakshi
India. Calcutta SRU, ISI
Some contributions to
evolutionary and functional
Aspects of human genomic Prof. Partha Pratim
3.
variation, with special University of Majumder,
Nidhan Kumar Biswas
reference to complex Calcutta HGU, ISI
disease.
Pattern of Distributive
Justice and Its’ Correlates in
4. University of Dr. Anjali Ghosh, PRU,
Rita Karmakar Different Groups of School
Calcutta ISI
Students.
Prof. P. Pal
Cellular Automata Rules:
Utkal Choudhury,
5. Their Analysis and
Sudhakar Sahoo University ASU, ISI
Applications.
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Prof. Bhargab B.
Studies in synthesis testing
6. Bhattacharya,
Gopal Paul and security issues in digital IIT, Kharagpur
(Co-Supervisor),
circuits based on BDD’s.
ACMU, ISI
The Lifestyle & The
Possibility of HIV/AIDS
Dr. Anil Kumar
7. Infection: An Exploratory University of
Suchismita Roy Choudhuri,
Study On The Migrant, Calcutta
SRU, ISI
Educated, Youth In Urban
India.
Brittle Deformation in the
western Cuddapah Basin,
Jadavpur Prof. Dilip Saha,
8. Vikash Tripathy South India and Implications
University GSU, ISI
for Intra-continental
Tectonics.
Geochemistry and Sr-Nd
isotopic signatures in mafic
granulite xenoliths within
Prof.
9. massif-type charnockitic Jadavpur
Prasanta Das S. Bhattacharya,
rocks in the Eastern Ghats University
GSU, ISI
Belt: Implications on the
nature and composition of
source.
A Study on the Microbial Prof. Sunanda
Jadavpur
10. Sutripta Sarkar Structure and Dynamics in Chanda,
University
Composting Processes. AERU, ISI
Number of candidates awarded degrees/ associatiships in the

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46 Convocation of the Institute held on 12 January, 2012
Degree / Associateship Number of candidates
1. Doctor of Philosophy (Ph. D) 16
2. Master of Technology (M. Tech.)

in Computer Science 19
3. Master of Technology (M. Tech.)

in Quality, Reliability and Operations Research 08
4. Master of Statistics (M. Stat.) 50
5. Master of Mathematics (M. Math.) 07
6. Master of Science (M.S.) in Quantitative Economics 27
7. Master of Science (M.S.) in Library and Information Science 06
8. Bachelor of Statistics (Honours) [B. Stat. (Hons.)] 41
9. Bachelor of Mathematics (Honours) [B. Math. (Hons.)] 01
Total 175
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INTERNATIONAL STATISTICAL EDUCATION CENTRE (ISEC)
The International Statistical Education Centre (ISEC) was founded in 1950 at the initiative of Professor
P.C. Mahalanobis. The Centre opened at Kolkata through an agreement between the International
Statistical Institute and the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), under the auspices of the UNESCO and the
Government of India. At present, the Centre is run by the Indian Statistical Institute under the auspices
of the Government of India. The Centre functions under a joint Board of Directors. In its 60 year
history, the Board of Directors of ISEC has had only two chairmen. Prof. P.C. Mahalanobis was the
Chairman since the inception of the Centre in 1950 until his death in 1972. Since then, Professor C.R.
Rao has been the Chairman of the Board.
The Centre aims to provide training in theoretical and applied statistics at various levels to selected
participants from countries of the Middle East, South and South-East Asia, the Far-East and the
commonwealth countries of Africa. The primary training programme is a 10-month regular course in
Statistics leading to a Statistical Training Diploma. In addition, special course on different topics of
varying duration are also organized.
In the 65th Term ISEC Regular Course (2011-2012), 8 trainees from 4 different countries, namely (1)
Afghanistan, (2) Mongolia, (3) Tanzania, and (4) Gambia attended the course. Of these 8 trainees, 2
trainees from Mongolia were supported by fellowships of the National Statistical Office (NSO) and all
other trainees were supported by fellowships of the ITEC/SCAAP of Government of India. All have
been awarded Statistical Training Diploma in the Convocation on March 28, 2012. Hon’ble Justice Mr.
S. K. Sen (former Chief Justice, Allahabad High Court) has graced the occasion as the Chief Guest.
Prof. S. B. Rao (Director, C R Rao Advanced Institute of Mathematics, Statistics & Computer Science
and Ex-Director, ISI) delivered the Convocation Address. Prof. C. R. Rao (Chairman, ISEC Board of
Directors and Ex-Director, ISI) handed over the Diploma certificates to the trainees.
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As per the decisions taken in the Board meeting on March 28, 2012, from 66 term onwards the
Regular Course will commence from August 1 every year. The trainees are provided with computer
facilities and internet connections in the ISEC office PC room and in the ISEC hostel. They have
access to the books of ISI library. Teachers of headquarters of the ISI and officers of the Government
of India have participated in teaching the Regular Course during the year. Till now, nearly 1530
trainees from about 67 countries have received the Statistical Training Diploma.
Construction work of the new building with modern amenities for ISEC is nearing completion at the
202 B.T. Road campus of the Institute. This includes ISEC hostel, class rooms, offices, etc. Professor
Bimal Kumar Roy, Director, ISI, has taken special interest in this project. Completion of this building
will provide a major facelift to the Centre and enhance its international image.
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2. RESEARCH AND OTHER SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES
The major thrust of the Institute is on research in various disciplines comprising Theoretical and
Applied Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Sciences, Biological Sciences, Economics and other Social
Sciences, Physics and Earth Sciences, Statistical Quality Control and Operations Research, and
Library and Information Sciences. Scientists of the Institute carry out independent research in their
own basic discipline and also undertake interdisciplinary research in collaboration with other units
within the Institute and also with outside organizations. The Institute also takes up various internally
and externally funded projects in diverse fields on challenging live problems of national and
international importance. As a part of research activities, scientists of the Institute are involved in
consultancy work as well. This section gives a brief account of the principal areas of work over the
past year of the scientific divisions of the Institute, namely, the Divisions of:
Theoretical Statistics and Mathematics
Applied Statistics
Computer and Communication Sciences
Physics and Earth Sciences
Biological Sciences
Social Sciences
Statistical Quality Control and Operations Research
Library, Documentation and Information Sciences
In addition, there is a report each from the ‘Center for Soft Computing Research: A National Facility’
and the ‘Computer and Statistical Services Centre’.
Theoretical Statistics and Mathematics Division
Stat-Math Unit, Kolkata
Cryptography
We continue with our work on Attribute Based Encryptions (ABE). We proposed efficient fully secure
Attribute-Based Encryption Schemes for General Access Structures. We have obtained Ciphertext
Policy (CP) and Key Policy (KP) encryption schemes for monotone access structures whose ciphertext
size or key size depends only on the number of minimal sets. We have also obtained a CP-ABE
scheme with constant size key anda Hierarchical (H) KP-ABE scheme with constant size ciphertext for
arbitrary access structures not necessarily monotone.
Rana Barua and Tapas Pandit
Continuing with our study of signature and signcryption schemes, we have proposed a variant of Ring
Signature which we called Ring Signature with designated Identity Verifier. We show that it has all the
desired security properties.
Rana Barua and Sumit Pandey
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Research Activities
Non-Commutative Geometry
We continue our research on quantum isometry groups. It has been proved that there does not exist
any genuine quantum group isometry of a classical compact manifold which is stably parallelizable.
Debashish Goswami, Soumalya Joardar and Biswarup Das
Some new results are proved towards the existence of a universal object in the category of compact
quantum groups acting isometrically and in a measure-preserving way on certain class of metric
measure spaces.
Debashish Goswami
Commutative Algebra
A general structure theorem for locally Laurent polynomial algebras has been established. It has been
shown that any faithfully flat algebra over a Noetherian normal domain R, whose generic and
codimension-one fibres are Laurent polynomial algebras in n variables over R, is a locally Laurent
polynomial algebra in n variables over R. A minimal sufficient condition for a faithfully flat algebra over
an arbitrary Noetherian domain to be locally Laurent polynomial has been obtained.
S.M. Bhatwadekar and Neena Gupta
The structure and properties of a faithfully flat algebra over a Noetherian normal domain whose
generic and codimension one fibres are A** is being investigated.
Neena Gupta
An example has been constructed which shows that when R is a two dimensional complete regular
local ring with an algebraically closed residue field and A is a Noetherian normal Rsubalgebra of R[X]
then A need not be finitely generated over R. Sufficient conditions for A to be finitely generated have
been given. Conditions for A to be Noetherian are being investigated.
Neena Gupta and N. Onoda
n
If A is an A fibration over a regular local ring R, then, by a result of Asanuma, A is stably isomorphic to
[m] [n+m]
the polynomial algebra R^[n], i.e., A is isomorphic to R for some non negative integer m. There
are examples where m need not be zero. A minimal lower bound for this integer m is being
investigated.
T. Asanuma and Neena Gupta
Broad area of my research is "Projective Modules and Complete Intersections". I have been focusing
on problems related to the Euler class group. Two papers published in the year 2011-12 involve
exploring the relation between the Euler class group of a ring and that of its polynomial extension.
Mrinal Kanti Das
Differential Topology
The notion of double structures were introduced in the theory of Lie groupoids and Lie algebroids by K.
Mackenzie. Double structures appear in connection with Poisson Geometry, namely in the context of
Poisson groupoids. We have observed that similar double structures also arise in the context of Jacobi
groupoids and Jacobi vector bundles. We also observe that the Poissonisation functor can be
extended to double structures. The work has been done in collaboration with Neeta Pandey.
Mahuya Datta
Operator Theory
Currently I am studying representation theory of planar algebras, a pictorial invariant for subfactors.
We have proved a conjecture of Kevin Walker and Vaughan Jones relating affine representations of
subfactor planar algebras to the Drinfeld center of a bimodule category coming from the subfactor.
Paramita Das
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Research Activities
Probability Theory
Information economics. Moral hazard problems and incentives. Spectral inference. Spectral properties
of large dimensional random matrices.
Arup Bose
Statistics
Growth curve model, Applications of Statistics to Industrial quality control, Physics, Sociology,
Agriculture, Education, Fluid mechanics and other natural sciences. Rates of convergence in Central
Limit Theorem (CLT), Law of iterated logarithms (LIL) and Characterization theorems.
Ratan Dasgupta
Stat-Math Unit, Delhi
Martingale problems and Markov Processes – Necessary and sufficient conditions for an operator to
be the generator of (a semigroup) of a Markov process, taking values in a complete separable metric
space have been identified. These conditions are on the lines of the Hille-Yosida theorem.
Abhay G. Bhatt
The evolvement or supression of separability or entanglement in its various levels in quantum

dynamical semigroups has been studied (arXiv.math 1201.0250). Jointly with Sibasish Ghosh tags
associated with unitary bases for matrix algebras have been defined and a fan representation for them
has been obtained; it is then related to maximally entangled vectors basis, mutually unbiased bases
and orthogonal latin squares. Jointly with M. Filali and M. Sangani Monfared, a trivolution on a
complex algebra A has been defined and studied in the context of Banach algebras, second duals of
certain group algebras and the duals of some topologically introverted spaces.
Ajit Iqbal Singh
Research was carried out in the following areas: (i) Factorial and fractional factorial designs, (ii)
second order response surface designs, (iii) use of block designs in finding optimal key predistribution
schemes for distributed sensor networks and (iv) nested orthogonal arrays.
Aloke Dey
(i) On standard deviations estimates for tree order restricted models; (ii) Connectivity threshold of
random geometric graphs with canter distributed vertices; (iii) On the nearest neighbor algorithm for
mean field traveling salesman problem; (iv) On Poly urn schemes with infinitely many colors; (v)
Random Walks on i.i.d random environment on free groups.
Antar Bandyopadhyay
Probability, random graphs, random directed trees, the Brownian web and extreme value theory has
been continued.
Anish Sarkar
The work on a problem of random matrix with entries from a heavy-tailed moving average process has
been continued.
Arijit Chakrabarty and Parthanil Roy
Investigation on new approaches to high dimensional two-sample testing using bootstrap has been
continued. The study of higher order accuracy of bootstrap for adaptive lasso estimators in high
dimensions has been continued and remarkable improvements over existing approaches have been
shown. The study on the techniques related to model selection using robust adaptive lasso estimators
in spatial settings has been continued.
Arindam Chatterjee
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Research Activities
Earlier work on noncommutative geometry have been continued, in particular on the geometry of
quantum groups and their homogeneous spaces.
Arup Kumar Pal
The research on computational Biology, Statistical Computing has been continued.

Deepayan Sarkar
Worked on bounds for coherent systems based on signatures. Studied discrete concepts of ageing
and looking at tests for them. Working on quantile density estimation and tests based on quantiles.
Modelling of competing risks data.
Isha Dewan
The work on Genus numbers in computing this invariant for classical groups and some exceptional
groups has been continued. Further work on this is still in progress.
Maneesh Thakur
Random threshold graphs, random directed trees and the Brownian web has been continued.
Rahul Roy
Work on properties of graphs related to matrices was continued. It is known that the adjacency matrix
of the line graph of a tree has nullity at most one. It was shown that this property holds for a graph with
an odd number of spanning trees.
R.B. Bapat
Several inequalities for positive linear maps and for matrix means were obtained. A striking extension
of the fundamental matrix polar decomposition was discovered.
Rajendra Bhatia
Worked on the irreducibility of polynomials, particularly Hermite-Laguerre polynomials and got some
results. Also worked on an implication of abc-Conjecture on some well known problems and wrote a
paper. Revisited a diophantine equation coming for a conjecture of Erdos and got some new insights.
Shanta Laishram
Working on a monograph on Statistical Signal Processing which mainly deals with frequency
estimation. Worked on two-dimensional frequency estimation in stable error and estimating the
parameters of bivariate exponential distribution under random censoring using EM algorithm. The work
on burst signal model in stationary errors has been continued.
Swagata Nandi
Stat-Math Unit, Bangalore
The carpenter problem in the context of II1 factors, formulated by Kadison asks: Let A⊂M be a masa in
a type II1 factor and let E be the normal conditional expectation from M onto A. Then, is it true that for
every positive contraction C in A, there is a projection P in M such that E(P) = C? In this note, we show
that this is true if C has finite spectrum. We will then use this result to prove an exact Schur-Horn
theorem for (positive) operators with finite spectrum and an approximate Schur-Horn theorem for
general (positive) operators.
B.V. Rajarama Bhat and Mohan Ravichandran
Given a state φ on a unital C*-algebra A we look at unital quantum dynamical semigroups τt on A such
that τs (·) = φ(·)I for some s > 0. We see that for the von Neumann algebra B(H), such quantum
dynamical semigroups dilate to semigroups of unital ∗-endomorphisms (E0 - semigroups) in standard
form and conversely all E0 - semigroups in standard form arise this way.
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Research Activities
Our characterization of linear maps preserving unitary conjugation has now appeared in a journal (see
the list of publications). A. joint paper with Ramesh G. and Sumesh K. on Stinespring’s theorem for
maps on Hilbert C* modules is accepted by the Journal of Operator theory on 31 Jan. 2010 and is yet
to appear.
B.V. Rajarama Bhat
A versal deformation theory of algebras over quadratic operads has been developed, where the
parameter space is a complete local algebra and a construction of a distinguised deformation of this
type, which induces all other deformations of a type of algebras, has been provided.
Anita Naolekar, Alice Fialowski and Goutam Mukherjee
Strong relative property (T) for pair of groups was considered and conditions on the action of the
semisimple Levy subgroup on the radical was obtained so that the corresponding pair consisting of
semismple Levy subgroup and the radical has strong relative property (T). Also, strong relative
property (T) was considered for actions on solenoids and interesting results were proved.
Explored and proved various results concerning contraction groups, distality and unimodularity of
closed subgroups and polynomial growth.
C.R.E. Raja and R. Shah
A ruin problem was formulated, which is appropriate to a multidimensional renewal type insurance
network in an orthant (with a risk-diversifying treaty) whose dynamics are governed by Skorokhod
equations. In the special case of Cramer-Lundberg type network, connection between probability of
ruin of the network and a family of "boundary value problems" for certain first order integro-partial
differential operators was also established.
S. Ramasubramanian
Work continued in Geometry of Banach spaces. A Garkavi type theorem was proved for M-ideals by
exhibiting classes of Banach spaces in which any M ideal of finite codimension is an intersection of
hyperplanes, each of which is again a M-ideal.
T.S.S.R.K. Rao
Explored a relationship between certain invariants of quotient Hilbert modules in the Cowen Douglas
class. Also issues of similarity and isomorphism of such modules has been analyzed. Introduced a
concrete model of doubly commuting operator tuples acting on a separable Hilbert space.
Jaydeb Sarkar
Work on the polarities of geometries of type, maximal subgroups of groups of type F4, ovoids in
projective 3-spaces over a field of characteristic 2 and codes related to rank 2 – geometries were
studied.
N.S.N. Sastry
On a lemma of Raghunathan which leads to a simplification of one of the principal results in a joint
paper of Mason-Premet-Sury-Zalesskii has been elaborated. By applying this to S-arithmetic lattices of
rank 1 groups over a global field of positive characteristic, it also provides a lower estimate for the
number of subgroups of a given index in such a lattice which are not S-congruence.
B. Sury and Alec W. Mason
Obtained results on triangular factorizations and Gauss decomposition of Chevalley groups over rings.
In particular, it was shown that over a ring of stable rank 1, one has short (length 4) unitriangular
factorisations for any Chevalley group. Moreover, under the assumption of the Generalised Riemann's
Hypothesis, Chevalley groups over the ring Z[1/p] were shown to admit unitriangular factorisations of
length six.
B. Sury, A.V. Smolensky and N.A.Vavilov
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Research Activities
A classical result of Erdos and Selfridge shows that a product of two or more consecutive integers is
never a perfect power. It was shown that if the product is perturbed by adding a rational number `r'
which is not a perfect n-th power, then several terms from the product can be dropped and still only
finitely many solutions can exist.
B. Sury and Manisha Kulkarni
Several results on generating functions and asymptotics of sums of moments of reciprocals of

binomial coefficients were obtained. In another collaborative work with 4 others, obtained 6 different
interpretations and evaluations of a certain sum involving binomial coefficients.
B. Sury, H. Belbachir and M. Rahmani
Maximal ideals in the ring of continuous functions were shown to be uncountably generated.
B. Sury
Applied Statistics Division

The Applied Statistics Division came into being in September 1996 in place of the Applied Statistics,
Surveys and Computing Division. The Computer Science Unit was renamed as the Applied Statistics
Unit and the Biometry Unit was transferred to the Biological Sciences Division. Till 2005-2006, the
Applied Statistics Division consisted solely of the Applied Statistics Unit. During the year 2006-2007, a
new unit viz. Bayesian and Interdisciplinary Research Unit was created within this Division. During
2011-2012 a third unit, the Sampling and Official Statistics Unit was created within this Division. The
following are the research and other activities of the Applied Statistics Division during the year.
Applied Statistics Unit
Scientists of the Applied Statistics Unit (ASU) are involved in various teaching, training, research and
development activities. This unit regularly conducts teaching/training programmes like winter/summer
schools, workshops and Probationers’ Training for Indian Statistical Service Trainees. The members
of the faculty conduct research in various areas of statistics, mathematics and computer science, with
special emphasis on applications. Some members collaborate with other units of ISI on joint projects
and also with scientists from other Universities/Institutes. Currently, there are collaborative on-going
projects with the Theoretical Statistics and Mathematics Division, Computer and Communication
Sciences Division and the Biological Sciences Division.
Sample Surveys
Following the Report on the pilot survey executed in districts of Mumbai, Amritsar and Imphal, the
Government of India constituted a fresh committee with Arijit Chaudhuri as the chairman and Prabal
Chaudhuri and Debasis Sengupta as non-government members. The recommendations of this
committee are with the Government of India and expected to be followed up soon.
Theoretical research was conducted on (i) random data gathering on sensitive issues, and (ii)
constraining network sampling techniques
Arijit Chaudhuri and Kajal Dihidar
An advantageous randomized response model was considered for estimating the sensitive
quantitative population mean based on simple random sampling with replacement for selecting the
respondents, for which the estimator and the variance estimator are free of the known parameters of
the scrambling variable. Irrespective of how a sample of respondents is chosen, allowing a direct or a
randomized response without revealing the option explored has been found to improve estimation
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procedure by the usual model. In the context of missing data, the problem of estimating the population
mean under unequal probability sampling scheme was considered, taking into account the doubtful
random nonresponse. The proposed estimators were compared with the usual estimators of
population mean in presence of random nonresponse through numerical simulations.
Kajal Dihidar
In connection with a pilot study conducted by NSSO for Periodic Labour Force Survey with mixed
panel data, the problem of estimation of unemployment rate was considered with two-quarter penal
data in a volatile labour market. It was observed that the regression estimator has more variance with
increased volatility. Sample size needed to achieve a fixed mean squared error has also been worked
out.
Shibdas Bandyopadhyay
Reliability and Survival Analysis
The problem of estimating the distribution of quality adjusted lifetime under some illness-death models
with dependent sojourn time distributions was considered. An improved calibration procedure for
graphical comparison of two life distributions was proposed. The problem of estimating regression
parameters and baseline cause specific hazards in competing risks framework with general missing
pattern is being investigated.
A discrete-time software reliability growth model for the analysis of software testing data with periodic
debugging schedule was considered, in addition to some extensions of Jelinski-Moranda model
incorporating nested error structure. A NHPP model has been developed and analysed for a particular
data set of software failure from industry.
New parametric models and tests for Accelerated Life Testing problems using parametric models were
studied based on conditional specifications. Change-point problems with multivariate non-normal
observations on cancer patients were studied.
Anup Dewanji, Debasis Sengupta and Ashis SenGupta
Design of Experiments, Combinatorial Methods and their Applications
Crossover designs under non-traditional models were studied.
A new broad-spectrum construction method was proposed for efficient key predistribution schemes for
distributed sensor networks based on combinations of duals of block designs. Explicit expressions
were obtained for various metrics and properties of these schemes were studied.
Various types of response-adaptive designs were investigated.
The problem of optimal allocation of units, with given prognostic variates or covariates, among
different treatments was studied.
Optimal compound designs in the context of dose-response studies of phase II clinical trials were
studied. Some problems related to model selection and parameter estimation for a class of completing
models were investigated.
Mausumi Bose, Anup Dewanji and Atanu Biswas
Signal Processing
A practical constraint that comes in the way of spectrum estimation of a continuous time-stationary
stochastic process is the minimum separation between successively observed samples of the process.
When the underlying process is not band-limited, sampling at any uniform rate leads to aliasing, while
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certain stochastic sampling schemes, including Poisson process sampling, are rendered infeasible by
the constraint of minimum separation. It has been proved that, subject to this constraint, no point
process sampling scheme is alias-free for the class of all spectra. It was observed that point process
sampling under this constraint can be alias-free for band-limited spectra, though the usual construction
of a consistent spectrum estimator does not work in such a case. It was established through
simulations that a commonly used estimator, which is consistent in the absence of this constraint,
performs poorly when the constraint is present. These results are expected to help practitioners in
rationalizing their expectations from point process sampling as far as spectrum estimation is
concerned, and motivate researchers to look for appropriate estimators of band-limited spectra.
Debasis Sengupta
Multivariate analysis
Tests for multivariate Scatter or Overall Variability were constructed in a nonparametric framework.
The scope for incorporating information from auxiliary data in nonparametric estimation of multivariate
density was investigated, and a suitable method was developed for this purpose. Several applications
of this technique were pointed out and a data analytic illustration was given.
Ashis SenGupta and Debasis Sengupta
Statistical Inference
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Intersection-Union tests and their relations to P tests in mixture models have been studied. Bayesian
methods for Growth Curve analysis and for Change-point problems were enhanced.
Ashis SenGupta
Categorical Data Analysis
A detailed study in the context of a general model for longitudinal categorical data is going on.
Atanu Biswas
Time series of discrete data
Time series for discrete data were studied. A study to compare several stationery processes for
categorical data with finite numbers of categories was conducted. Time series of zero-inflated count
data were also investigated
Atanu Biswas
Directional Data Analysis
Constructions of and inference for axial distributions, asymmetric circular distributions and multivariate
directional distributions have been given. Models and inference for directional inverse regression
analysis have been enhanced. Bayesian analysis of Growth curves for possibly multivariate data have
been enhanced. Generalized wrapped stable distributions, symmetric and asymmetric, have been
derived and related inference procedures have been developed. Some test procedures for circular
data are carried out in the context of cataract surgery data. Also modeling and analysis of multivariate
circular data in the context of some galaxy data are under study.
Ashis SenGupta and Atanu Biswas
Cryptology
Research on several areas on cryptology was carried out by faculty members and research scholars
of ASU. Included among these are theoretical aspects of hash functions, study of weak keys for RSA,
correlation and biases in RC4, Boolean functions, key pre-distribution in sensor networks, broadcast
encryption and modes of operations of a block cipher. The faculty members also actively participated
in the program committees and organizations of several international conferences.
Bimal K. Roy, Palash Sarkar, Subhamoy Maitra, Kishan C. Gupta and Mridul Nandi
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Miscellaneous Issues
Research was conducted on miscellaneous problems related to Directional Data Analysis, Multivariate
Statistical Inference, Probability Distributions on Smooth Manifolds, Regression with Count and Non-
linear Data, Classification for Toroidal data, High Volatility Models in Financial Data Analysis.
Ashis SenGupta
Clinical Trials
Response-adaptive designs were carried out in clinical trials to allocate a larger number of patients to
the better treatment, leading to ethical gain. Some work related to several response-adaptive designs
in different set-ups was carried out. In particular, a study to obtain optimal target allocation was
initiated.
Inference on treatment difference in clinical trials was studied in the presence of surrogate responses
when not all the true responses are available. The existing results were improved upon in the case of
binary treatment responses. Distributions of log odds-ratio and comparison of several standard
estimation procedures in this context were studied for such surrogate-augmented data. It was
observed that the efficient use of surrogate data improves the inference.
Asymptotic closeness of Mantel-Haenszel estimator and profile log-likelihood estimator are under
study.
The problem of investigating Adverse Drug Reaction (ADR) associated with a specific drug from the
post-market spontaneous response database is being studied.
Atanu Biswas and Anup Dewanji
Mathematical Genomics
Research on Olfactory Receptors (ORs), Micro RNA (miRNA), Proteomics, etc. for species like
human, chimpanzee and mouse was conducted, with a view to developing a proper quantitative
understanding of these biological families and the genomic evolution through the species. Applying
tools like Fractal Geometry, Mathematical Morphology, Hurst Exponent, Chaos Game Representation,
L-system etc. a method for predicting whether a given random sequence is a valid OR/miRNA or not,
was developed. A computational approach was adopted in each case, and the research has been
reported online at the Home of Mathematical Genomics (http://www.isical.ac.in/~hmg/).
In addition, research was also conducted on some mathematical problems, and the Integral Value
Transformation (IVT), a discrete transformation from to , was developed. Depending on the
convergence property of IVT, an analogous version of the Collatz Conjecture was formulated and
proved. Also, studies of affine discrete dynamical systems in the light of the Collatz function have been
made. An inverse of the IVT, for finding the pre-image of a number, has been obtained for some
special cases, and applied to a network design.
Pabitra Pal Choudhury
Spatio-temporal Cluster Model of Tuberculosis in West Bengal
The pilot study of a project titled ‘Spatio-temporal Cluster Model of Tuberculosis in West Bengal was
initiated in the North 24 Parganas district in West Bengal. Multistage Stratified Sampling Schemes
were used. On the basis of geographical locations and availability of infrastructural health facilities 4
strata were formed, namely, municipal, rural, municipal rural combined and riverine. From each
stratum, using PPSWOR, Tuberculosis Units (TUs) were selected in the 1st stage. Designated
Microscopic Centres (DMCs) were chosen using SRSWOR in the second stage. TB patients were
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selected in the 3 stage from the selected DMCs, using SRSWOR. Using structured questionnaires,
patient-related information was collected from the TB register and Treatment card available in TUs, as
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well as from the households of the selected patients. Data processing has been completed. Geo-
statistical analysis is in progress.
Kasturi Basu
Bayesian and Interdisciplinary Research Unit
Scientists of Bayesian and Interdisciplinary Research Unit (BIRU) are involved in different kinds of
research, training and development activities. The members of the faculty conduct research in various
areas of Applied and Theoretical Statistics. Some members collaborate with other units of ISI on joint
projects and also with scientists from other Universities/Institutes. Currently, there are collaborative on-
going projects with the Theoretical Statistics and Mathematics Division, Computer and Communication
Sciences Division and the Biological Sciences Division.
Critical Sets in Equiorthogonal Frequency Squares
A study of critical sets in a pair of equiorthogonal Frequency Squares has been carried out. Using this
stronger definition of orthogonality, a pair of equiorthogonal Frequency Squares is classified into one
of the three classes depending on the isomorphism or orthogonality of the corresponding rows and
columns. The structural pattern of any Frequency Square having an equiorthogonal mate with
isomorphic corresponding rows and columns have been identified. A general result determining the
size of the critical set of a pair of such equiorthogonal Frequency Squares has been obtained. For the
other possible patterns of corresponding rows and columns in a pair of equiorthogonal Frequency
Squares, some general investigations have been made with a detailed study of the conditions for the
existence of an equiorthogonal mate and the size of a critical set for a pair of squares of order 8 based
on 2 symbols.
Rita Saharay
Estimation of the center of the Milky Way Galaxy using Affinity Measure based on Hellinger
Distance
A method has been proposed for estimating the location of the centre of the Milky Way Galaxy with
respect to the centre of the Earth. This was done by comparing an observed velocity distribution of
stars at an unknown location with respect to the centre of the galaxy with simulated velocity
distributions at known (with respect to the centre of the galaxy) locations (the simulations being done
under four different astrophysical models). The location of the best matching simulated distribution
was proposed as an estimate for the location of the observed velocity distribution, which can be used
to obtain an estimate for the location of the centre of the Milky Way. The findings over four different
astrophysical models have been compared to determine which one best explains the observed
distribution. The affinity measure based on the familiar Hellinger distance has been used to quantify
the closeness of two estimated densities. A validation test has also been implemented in order to
judge the suitability of this approach.
Soumendu Sundar Mukherjee, Sourabh Banerjee, Dalia Chakraborty,
Sourabh Bhattacharya, Smarajit Bose and Ayanendranath Basu
Goodness-of-Fit Tests Based on Inlier Modification
A class of goodness-of–fit tests, with better all-round power against all kinds of alternatives, has been
developed.
Ayanendranath Basu
Robust Tests of Hypothesis Based on the Density Power Divergence
A class of robust tests of hypothesis, with good asymptotic power but significantly improved
robustness properties compared to the likelihood ratio test, has been developed.
Ayanendranath Basu
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Classification Algorithms
Application of Mahalanobis-Taguchi systems in classification was investigated, resulting in a new

classification scheme, christened Classification using Mahalanobis-Taguchi Systems (CMTS). This
purely nonparametric technique was tested on a wide range of simulated and real datasets. This
simple method was found to be quite competitive with other established sophisticated classification
techniques.
A generalization of Fisher’s discriminant analysis was successfully implemented. This adaptive and
nonparametric classification technique (Generalized Quadratic Discriminant Analysis, GQDA)
performed extremely well when the underlying distributions are not Gaussian which is a necessary
assumption for the QDA framework.
Smarajit Bose, Rita Saharay and
Amita Pal
Statistical Issues in Content Based Image Retrieval
In the context of content-based Image retrieval, algorithms have been developed by combining
conventional and segmentation-based approaches for significant improvement in retrieval
performance. Coupled with relevance feedback, the resultant algorithms achieved excellent retrieval
accuracy on several benchmark datasets.
Smarajit Bose, Dipti Prasad Mukherjee, Bhabatosh Chanda and Amita Pal
Fitting a Mixture of Conway-Maxwell-Poisson Distributions
A theory has been developed for fitting mixtures of Conway-Maxwell-Poisson distributions for count
data. The EM algorithm was used for successful implementation of the theory. This algorithm is
effective in the case of bimodality in the count data which shows evidence of under- or over-
dispersion.
Smarajit Bose and Galit Shmueli
Analysis of Olfactory Receptor Genomic Clusters at the Functional Level using Boolean
Function/Cellular Automata and Pattern Recognition Techniques
A number of features calculated from the DNA sequences, namely, amino acid usage, base
composition and relative synonymous codon usage (RSCU) have been evaluated for use in olfactory
receptor gene sequence classification. Since the input to the classifier is independent of sequence
lengths, the approach is especially useful when sequences to be classified are of differing lengths and
homology-based methods tend to fail. The performance of a number of different feature subsets has
been demonstrated on 847 human olfactory receptor sequences, which are classified into one of two
classes, namely, functional genes and pseudogenes. Among several classifiers explored, a multilayer
perceptron (MLP) with 4 hidden nodes performed best on an average.
Amita Pal, Pabitra Pal Choudhury and Arunava Goswami
Mathematical Modeling of infectious Diseases
Models were developed and analysed for spread of HIV, Bird flu, Swine Flu and Rota viruses.
Distribution of ART to the individuals suffering with AIDS is one of the tasks for the fourth phase of
national AIDS control policy in the country.
Arni S.R. Srinivasa Rao
Estimating population numbers required annually for Biometric Cards in India
India has launched a massive project on biometric cards which is expected to be useful for residents in
several ways, from obtaining driving license to passports etc. Several deterministic approaches are
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being developed in estimating annual requirements of new cards for the governments. How do we
account for missing population so that a unique identity is provided, is investigated.
Mathematical Models in Insurance
Methodology of estimating the impact of health insurance on life expectancies in India has been
investigated. There has been increase in private insurance schemes for more than a decade in the
country and our methods are dealt with indirect estimation models, osculatory methods.
Population Coverage Errors
Large undercount in census leads to a great problems in planning and growth of every country. We are
working on this very untouched area for coverage error estimation in Indian Census. Using Post
Enumeration Survey (PES) we are trying to give some robust coverage error estimates through
probabilistic model.
Kiranmoy Chatterjee and Arni S.R. Srinivasa Rao
Child Mortality estimation in India
We perform Bayesian analysis on the child mortality data obtained from three round of National Family
Health Surveys (1992-93, 1998-99 and 2005-06). We compute posterior probabilities of child mortality
by taking mother’s education as an independent variable.
Reetabrata Bhattacharya and Arni S.R. Srinivasa Rao
Roter-Router Models (RRM) and some related issues
Some questions related to Roter-Router models in one dimension and higher dimensions are studied.
Problems related to prime numbers and distance between individual and group of prime numbers are
explored in deterministic and probabilistic ways.
Some problems related to Complex dynamics and applications
Application of complex analysis methods in biology is being investigated. Our long term goal is to
obtain relationship with simply connected regions and Monte Carlo methods which could have role to
play with massive data sets.
Trans-dimensional MCMC Algorithms Based on Deterministic Transformations
Dutta and Bhattacharya (2012) developed a novel MCMC methodology that uses simple deterministic
transformations of some arbitrary, one-dimensional random variable to update high-dimensional
random variables in a single block. The proposed methodology, referred to as Transformation-based
Markov chain Monte Carlo (TMCMC), has been shown to have superior mixing properties compared to
standard MCMC methods and to be computationally much less expensive. Further, TMCMC has been
extended to Trans-dimensional TMCMC (TTMCMC), where the number of random variables to be
updated is a random variable.
Moumita Das and Sourabh Bhattacharya
Bayesian Inverse Learning of Milky Way Model Parameters Using Matrix-Variate Gaussian
Process-Based Method
Since the nature of the phase space in the neighbourhood of the Sun is affected by distinct Milky Way
features, measurements of phase space coordinates of individual stars that live in the neighbourhood
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of the Sun will be influenced by such features. Then, inversion of such measurements can help us
learn the parameters that describe such Milky Way features. A Bayesian inverse problem approach
has been proposed, where the available stellar velocity information matrix is modelled as an unknown
function of the Milky Way model parameters, where this function is inverted using Bayesian techniques
to predict the model parameters. This unknown function turns out to be matrix-variate, which is
modeled as a matrix-variate Gaussian Process. We develop a general method to perform inverse,
nonparametric learning, using matrix-variate Gaussian Processes. For the inference we use the
recently advanced Transformation-based Markov Chain Monte Carlo (TMCMC). Application of our
method to observed stellar velocity data results in estimates that are consistent with those in
astrophysical literature. That these results could be obtained using far smaller data sets compared to
those required for the calibration approach is encouraging in terms of projected applications to
external galaxies.
Dalia Chakrabarty, Munmun Biswas and Sourabh Bhattacharya
Circular Bayesian Non-parametric State-Space Models
The approach in the earlier work on Bayesian Non-parametric State-Space Models has been extended
to the far more complicated and challenging situation where the state-space equations correspond to
unknown functions where the inputs and the outputs lie on circles. We develop a novel methodology
for Bayesian inference in these models.
Satyaki Mazumdar and Sourabh Bhattacharya
Nonstationary Semiparametric Spatio-Temporal Bayesian Modelling using Kernel Convolution

of Order-Based Dependent Dirichlet Process
Spatio-temporal processes are important modeling tools for many problems of environmental science,
biological science, geographical science, etc. However, it is usually (and somewhat unrealistically)
assumed that the underlying model is parametric and that the covariance function is stationary and
separable. All the previous attempts to construct nonparametric processes with covariance functions
that are neither stationary nor separable fail to satisfy some desirable properties. We show that
suitable kernel convolution of order-based dependent Dirichlet processes rectify all the problems and
have many attractive theoretical properties.
Prior and posterior MISE convergence rates of mixture models based on Dirichlet processes:
asymptotic comparison and choice of parameters
In terms of MISE (Mean Integrated Squared Error), the posterior rate of convergence of the Dirichlet
process-based mixture models proposed by Escobar and West (1994) and Bhattacharya (2008) has
been calculated, and it has been shown that the latter converges much faster. Guided by the
asymptotic results, the authors have shown how to select the “maximum” number of components, M,
and the parameter of the strength of the base measure a of the model of Bhattacharya (2008). The
prior MISE convergence rate of the Bhattacharya (2008) has been computed with respect to M and a
under suitable assumptions on the base measure, and the resultant choices of M and a have been
compared with those associated with the posterior convergence rate.
Sabyasachi Mukhopadhyay and Sourabh Bhattacharya
Perfect simulation in clustering of categorical time series with unknown number of clusters
For the first time, a methodology has been proposed for clustering in categorical time series with
unknown number of clusters and the perfect sampling theory of mixtures of unknown number of
components has been applied for exact Bayesian inference in this case.
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Recent advances in perfect sampling
A comprehensive review of the recent advances of perfect simulation theory has been provided,
showing that many challenging realistic Bayesian problems can be handled via perfect simulation,
completely eliminating the problems of assessment of MCMC convergence.
Nonstationary nonparametric space-time processes using Hamiltonian dynamics
A novel methodology using the Hamiltonian dynamics has been proposed to construct a non-
stationary, nonparametric spatio-temporal process having desirable properties. To construct the
process, an isotropic Gaussian process was used as the starting point and Hamiltonian dynamics was
applied to create a new process that is neither stationary nor Gaussian. The resultant process is highly
structured in space and time, and yet possesses desirable properties, not enjoyed by the
spatiotemporal processes existing in the literature.
Nonstationary nonparametric space-time processes using compositions of Gaussian

processes
A novel methodology has been proposed for construction of nonparametric, non-stationary processes
using compositions of isotropic Gaussian processes. It has been shown that this method includes
most of the existing spatial and/or spatiotemporal processes as special cases. Moreover, the process
has many attractive theoretical and computational properties. This methodology is proposed to be
extended for constructing space-time processes on spheres, which is important when considering
spatio-temporal data collected from all over the world. Since the data will be massive, we need cutting-
edge computational methods for Bayesian inference. TMCMC/TRJMCMC developed by Dutta and
Bhattacharya, Das and Bhattacharya will be extremely useful in this regard.
Suman Guha and Sourabh Bhattacharya
Sampling and Official Statistics Unit
The Sampling and Official Statistics Unit was created in the month of March 2012 with two invited
talks, in the inaugural session, by Prof. Abhijit Sen, Member, Planning Commission speaking on
“Policy Research Using Indian Database” and Professor Arijit Chaudhuri (Sampling Expert) on
“Queries on SOSU with Comments & Partial Answers”.
Asymmetric Information and Middlemen Margins—an Experiment with Indian Potato Farmers
The role of asymmetric information in potato production and trade was investigated in some selected
markets of West Bengal. An experiment was conducted to provide two types of information (public and
private) to randomly selected farmers in treatment villages, while the control villages remained
unaffected. A large-scale survey was conducted to understand the impact. The results showed that net
of marketing costs, traders earn margins in the range of 55 to 100% of farmgate prices. Information
provision could bring no change in average margins, but the private information intervention caused
farmgate prices and traded quantities to co-move more with wholesale prices. The evidence is
inconsistent with long-term implicit contracts allowing risk to be shared between farmers and traders.
Instead, the results are explained by a model of expost bargaining, in which low outside options of
farmers prevent informational interventions from having significant impacts.
Sandip Mitra, Dilip Mookherjee, Sujata Visaria and Maximo Torero
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Borrower Selection and Impacts of Agent Intermediate versus Group Based Lending: Theory
and Evidence
In this study, which is a departure from traditional microfinance in that it advocates doorstep credit
through agent Intermediaries, a model of credit market with adverse selection has been developed, in
which borrowers vary with respect to (unobservable) project risk and (observable) landholdings, and
the informal market is locally segmented. The model generates detailed predictions concerning
informal interest rates, borrower selection, take-up and repayment patterns with respect to both risk
and landholding categories. The predictions of the model were successfully tested using data from a
randomized evaluation currently being con-ducted in West Bengal, with traditional group-based joint
liability loans (GBL) serving as the control. The proposed approach (TRAIL) was found to be more
successful in targeting low-risk clients, thereby generating higher repayment rates, unlike GBL which
is more successful in targeting landless households. It was also seen to achieve higher take-up rates,
thereby managing to overcome problems faced by microfinance clients inherent in group-based
lending and monitoring. The study further aims at looking into the differential impacts of information
and credit intervention across various villages.
Sandip Mitra, Alberto Motta, Dilip Mookherjee, Sujata Visaria and Pushkar Maitra
Absolute vs. Relative Incentives—an Experiment Targeting Child Malnutrition in Slums of

Kolkata
Improvement in worker efficiency has been an area of great focus in the private sector and industry,
where incentives appear to matter for profitability and improved performance. However, there is almost
no evidence on the impact of performance pay for public sector workers in a controlled experiment.
This study was made with the objective of examining the impact of providing monetary incentives or
introducing competition among Anganwadi workers, along with uniformly providing nutritional
information to mothers, in reducing child malnutrition. Analysis was made of (i) the complementarity
effect for the same level of performance incentive as well as a higher incentive, to derive an estimate
of the elasticity of the complementarity effect with respect to the incentive; (ii) the absolute incentive
scheme against a relative incentive scheme where workers compete against each other for a larger
piece of the total prize.
Sandip Mitra and Prakash Singh
Cash Transfer versus In-Kind Transfers: A Conceptual Framework and Preliminary Evidence
The objective of this study was two-fold: (i) analysis of the costs and benefits of the three types of
transfers -- Unconditional cash transfers (UCT), Conditional cash transfers (CCT) and In-kind transfers
(ICT) of goods and services by governments; (ii) characterization of environments where one works
better than the others.
Recent literature on institutional economics has indicated that the ability of the state to effectively
deliver basic goods and services is an important determinant of economic growth. However, public
institutions in India have often failed to deliver efficiently. Arguments have therefore been made in
favour of direct cash transfer to beneficiaries, triggering debate between two schools: pro- cash
transfer and anti-cash transfer. However, given a wide range of variations in the characteristics of
goods and services, and also the institutional quality across states/districts, a general preference for
cash transfer or in-kind transfer may not be very useful in guiding the policy-makers. Attempts have
been made to understand the apparent conflicts through theoretical and empirical exercises,
conducted in the state of Bihar.
Sandip Mitra, Maitreesh Ghatak and Chinmay Kumar
Taxing the Informal Sector
An attempt has been made to provide an innovative mechanism to enable the State Government to
generate revenue from street vendors, to contain extortion and to provide social protection without
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assigning any kind of property right to public space and hurting their means of livelihood. Similar
mechanisms have been experimented with success in several African and South-east Asian countries
without any political backlash. Street vendors pay substantial extortion and illegal fees to various
agents and spots are transferred from one vendor to another in exchange for huge payments. Thus
though they are effectively being taxed all the time, the Government does not receive this tax. At the
same time, there is absolutely no legitimacy to such trading activities, and these traders are always at
the mercy of extortionists. This study has proposed a strategy for converting a part of the illegal fees
into legal taxes or license fees of some kind, with the objective of empowering the urban poor with
social dignity and, at the same time, providing the State with much needed resources on a regular
basis. This has been a unique study in the context of India.
Sandip Mitra and Sugata Marjit
Computer and Communication Sciences Division
Advanced Computing and Microelectronics Unit
The research activities of the Advanced Computing and Microelectronics Unit (ACMU) comprise
theoretical and applied research in the areas of high performance computing, pervasive and mobile
computing, wireless and sensor networks, VLSI design tools and electronic design automation, logic
synthesis and testing, error correction and fault-tolerance, physical design of microchips, embedded
systems, system-on-a-chip, low-power architectures, computational geometry, algorithms and data
structures, computational biology, hardware for image processing, nano-technology and giga-scale
integration techniques, hardware and software validation. During the period 2011-2012, the faculty
members of the unit were engaged in the following research projects:
· Physical Design for 3D ICs

· Reconfiguration Problems
· Partitioning and covering problem of polygon in 2D
· Power and Bandwidth Management in Wireless Networks
· Low Memory Algorithms
· Universal Mobile Telecommunication Systems (UMTS) network planning
· Computer-aided Design and Testing of Digital Microflidic Nano-Biochips
· Developing two labs (i) Nano-CAD (ii) Cluster Computing
· Energy-efficient Routing in Mobile Ad-hoc Networks (MANET)
· Automated Debugging for evolving programs
· Multi-valued logic for Quantum Computers
Physical Design for 3D ICs
Three-dimensional integrated circuits (3D IC) which are chips with two or more layers of active
electronic components, integrated both vertically and horizontally into a single circuit, promise lower
interconnection complexity and delay. Existing algorithms for physical design of 2D chips are
inadequate to tackle additional constraints due to through-silicon-via and thermal vias required for 3D
ICs. Few research groups are focussing on this topic. This project aims at designing efficient
algorithms for physical design of 3D ICs.A TSV multiplexing method, for scan chains and functional
path, has been designed to reduce the number of TSVs. Experiments on ISCAS89 and ITC99
Benchmark circuits indicate that on an average TSV area has reduced by 8-9 %, with 3.28% impact on
the scan chain wire length. Simulated Annealing based algorithms and genetic algorithms for
floorplanning in 3D ICs have been explored. Newer and very fast methods of estimating thermal
parameters of circuits were developed for thermal simulation. Heuristics for smarter floorplans were
also demonstrated. Results suggest that simulated annealing coupled with heuristics performed
consistently better than without them.
Susmita Sur-Kolay
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Reconfiguration Problems
Given a graph G = (V, E) with each vertex of the graph is either empty (E), or occupied by a red/blue
chip (R/B respectively). Each colored chip can move to an adjacent vertex, provided the vertex it is
moving to was previously empty. Thus no vertex of the graph hosts more than one chip at any
particular instant. An R-receptor is located adjacent to some particular vertex (called exit_red) of the
graph. Once a red chip reaches that particular vertex, it can be removed from the graph, thus making
that particular vertex empty. Same for the blue chips whose receptor lies adjacent to some other
particular vertex, called exit_blue. Thus the number of empty vertices in the graph increases as
colored chips are brought to their respective receptors. The goal is to empty the graph by taking all the
colored chips to their respective receptors with a minimum number of moves. The following results are
obtained:
* The feasibility question for this problem is in P.
* The optimality question for this problem is in NP.
* If G = (V, E) be a graph with k cut-vertices, then G can always be emptied if there is at least k + 1
empty vertices initially.
* Given a graph, let k be the length of a shortest path between exit_red and exit_blue. The graph can
always be emptied if there are initially at least k + 1 empty vertices in the graph.
Subhas C. Nandy
Partitioning and Covering Problem of Polygon in 2D
Dividing or partitioning polygonal regions satisfying some specific criteria helps to solve many
problems in facility location, VLSI, robotics domain. Competitive facility location is concerned with the
favorable placement of facilities by competing market players, and has been studied in several
contexts. In such a scenario, when the users choose the facilities based on the nearest-neighbor rule,
the optimization criteria is to maximize the cardinality or the area of the service zone depending on
whether the demand region is discrete or continuous, respectively. A game-theoretic analogue of this
problem gives rise to the notion of the Voronoi game, which has been studied mostly for continuous
demand regions. The following results are obtained:
One Round Discrete Voronoi Game in 2D: Given are a set U of n users, two sets of facilities F and S
owned by two competing players P1 and P2 respectively. At first P1 chooses a facility f1 following
which P2 chooses another facility f2 such that maximum payoff of P2 is attained at the point f2
whereas optimum payoff of P1 is attained at point f1. Optimal location can be determined in
polynomial time.
Sandip Das
Power and Bandwidth Management in Wireless Networks
In the area of energy-efficient communication, we have found a new communication scheme, called
RBNSiZeComm, which employs a novel source encoding technique based on redundant binary
number system coupled with the idea of silent communication of 0’s in the message string, which
provides a saving of about 53% transmitter energy for AWGN channels. Apart from RBNSiZeComm
we have also proposed three other schemes for energy-efficient communication, namely Ternary with
Silent Symbol (TSS), Compression with Null Symbol (CNS), Run Zero Encoding (RZE). TSS provides
20% savings in transmitter energy and 36.9% savings in receiver energy, CNS enables a saving of
about 30% transmitter energy and 50% receiver energy and RZE provides 35.2% savings in
transmitter energy and 12.5% savings in receiver energy. In the area of cognitive radio networks
(CRN), we have addressed the problem of channel sensing, channel allocation and transmission of
multimedia signals, while maintaining the required QoS constraints. Depending on the type of signal
and QoS requirements, different types of multimedia signals need different bandwidths for
communication. In typical wireless systems, unless a contiguous frequency band in the spectrum with
width at least equal to the required bandwidth is obtained, multimedia communication can not occur
with the desired QoS. We have proposed here a novel technique based on Sample Division
Multiplexing (SDM) to overcome this issue. Our approach is based on utilizing several frequency
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bands, each of smaller width than the required bandwidth but whose sum total equals at least the
required bandwidth. Algorithms for channel reservation, channel sensing and allocation along with
protocols for transmission and reception have been developed. Our approach also ensures
preemption of secondary users by the primary users as typically demanded in a cognitive radio based
communication environment. We have also proposed a novel scheme for multi-path routing in a CRN
for multimedia communication, based on an extension of the idea of SDM as given for single-hop
communication, even when a contiguous band of required width is not available for some or one of the
hops in the route. Each data packet of the multimedia signal is split into several sub-packets each of
which needs much smaller bandwidth than the original packet, and these sub-packets are sent
through all these routes to be eventually received by the destination node with the desired QoS.
Bhabani P. Sinha
Low Memory Algorithms
In-place Priority Search Tree: One of the classic data structure for storing points in 2D is Priority
search tree, introduced by McCreight in 1985. It has gargantuan application in different areas of
computer science. We proposed a method of constructing this data structure in an in-place manner
such that all the rudimentary query operations performed on this structure can also be implemented as
efficiently as in the original one. We used this data structure, to compute the maximum area empty
axis-parallel rectangle with the same point set that runs in O(R log n) time using O(1) extra-space,
where R is the number of maximal empty rectangles present on the floor. Optimization Problems of
Geometric Intersection Graphs: In sophisticated database query and VLSI physical design, several
optimization problems are formulated using the intersection graph of axis-parallel rectangles. Similarly,
the disk graph plays an important role in formulating different problems in mobile ad hoc networks.
Most of the optimization problems like finding maximum independent set, minimum dominating set are
NP-hard. Approximation algorithms are available for these problems. We are investigating whether in-
place approximation algorithms for these problems are possible or not. On the other hand, finding
maximum clique for both rectangles intersection graphs and unit disk graphs are polynomially
solvable. We proposed efficient in-place algorithms for these problems with O(1) additional space.
Arijit Bishnu and Subhas C. Nandy
Universal Mobile Telecommunication Systems (UMTS) Network Planning
This project focuses on developing optimization models and techniques for UMTS network planning.
Although mathematical formulations for UMTS network planning have been derived in the literature
considering many system features such as base station selection and configuration, power
assignment, traffic requirement, cell load, little has been done to address the soft handover issue
explicitly. We have argued that the incorporation of soft handover remains an important component for
definitive investigation in optimization models for cell planning because it can provide gain to the user.
We have then quantified the benefits obtainable with soft handoff, as opposed to merely stating them
on qualitative reasoning. For that, first we have developed an optimization model for transmission site
selection and configuration in UMTS networks by taking advantage of the maximum ratio combining
soft handover (SHO) gain that can arise due to fade margins. Then, we have measured the coverage
improvement that can be achieved due to the fade margin on the soft handover with respect to the
coverage without soft handover. We have demonstrated that incorporation of soft handover leads to
improved coverage in UMTS network planning. The speed of network evaluation is a binding
constraint on the performance of meta-heuristic techniques used for the planning tasks. Consequently
in large-scale scenarios, tractability is significantly impeded by the number of test points that requires
to be evaluated. We are attempting to improve the tractability of planning problem by changing the
resolution of the problem scenario by reducing the number of test points that required to be evaluated.
Our goal is to improve the tractability significantly while marginal reduction in quality of network
evaluation may be sacrificed. We are also attempting to develop efficient power control mechanism
and efficient technique to cope up with mobility of the users.
Sasthi C. Ghosh
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Computer-Aided Design and Testing of Digital Microfluidic Nano-Biochips (Completed 2010-12)
A lab-on-a-chip combines microfluidics, (bio) chemistry, electronic and optical sensors, and microchip
fabrication technology. We have studied several optimization issues involving sample preparation,
testing and contamination wash in digital microfluidic biochips. These algorithms are specially
important for low-cost dilution and mixture preparation - an essential step towards automation of
bioassays. New procedures for faster testing and contamination cleaning have been developed and
evaluated. These results will provide an enabling platform for viable implementation a large class of
nanobiochips for a variety of healthcare applications.
Bhargab B. Bhattacharya
Developing two labs of the Unit: (i) Nano-CAD Lab and (ii) Cluster Computing Lab
The Unit has established two new labs of the unit (namely, Nanotechnology CAD Lab, and Cluster
Computing Lab) to support advanced CAD research facilities to faculty members, research fellows,
and the M.Tech.(CS) students of the Institute.
Bhargab B. Bhattacharya, Susmita Sur-Kolay and Nabanita Das
Energy-Efficient Routing in Mobile Ad-hoc Networks (Completed: 2009-12)
In multi-hop wireless sensor networks, the problem of uneven energy depletion is intrinsic to the
system. With uniform node distribution and continuous traffic model without data fusion, no routing
strategy, in general, can avoid the creation of an energy hole around the sink. However, nearly
balanced energy consumption can be achieved by using non-uniform deterministic node distribution
where nodes are placed in predetermined positions. For a random graded node distribution, we
develop a simple static distributed algorithm for data gathering with an attempt to distribute the traffic
uniformly to maximize the lifetime of the network. It requires just a one-time computation during the
initialisation of the network. Simulation studies show that for non-uniform random distribution of nodes
the proposed algorithm with less information and less computing can enhance network lifetime
significantly compared to earlier algorithms.
Nabanita Das
Automated Debugging for Evolving Programs
Debugging denotes the process of detecting root causes of unexpected observable behaviour in
programs (such as a program crash, an unexpected output value being produced or an assertion
violation). Debugging program errors is a difficult process, and often takes a significant fraction of the
time in the program development stage. Even today, debugging remains much of a manual activity,
with the actual debugging time dependent on the size and complexity of the program being debugged,
the nature of manifestation of the bug and the level of familiarity and expertise of the programmer. The
standard practice of debugging till date in the software community is to manually inspect the execution
trace exhibiting the bug inside a debugger and try and locate the error cause(s) from an observed
error. It is a widely accepted reality in any large-scale development that a complex piece of program is
never written from scratch. Usually a program evolves from one version to another. This is termed as
program evolution where one program version evolves to a new version. When we change a program
version to produce a new version, we may introduce bugs. The main objective of this work is to devise
efficient means for debugging change-induced bugs, which are absent in an earlier version of a
program but present in a modified buggy version of the same. The following problems have been / are
being studied in this context.
- Formal methods and debugging principles for debugging evolving programs
- Modelling of standard re-factorings for programs and their effects on automated debugging
- Model checking of evolving programs
Ansuman Banerjee
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Multi-valued Logic for Quantum Computers
Quantum computing and quantum information science are emerging research areas. Design of
efficient quantum computing hardware architectures is mandatory for building real quantum computing
machines. Most of the work focuses on binary logic whereas multi-valued logic has the advantages of
less hardware cost. Defining ternary logic in quantum domain has been achieved and utilized for
synthesis of ternary logic quantum circuits. Recently, synthesis methods for quaternary logic have also
been devised which yield more circuits with lower quantum gate cost.
Susmita Sur-Kolay
Distributed Algorithms for Geometric Problems for Robot Swarms
A robot swarm is a system of multiple autonomous mobile robots engaged in collaborative tasks.
Robots are usually autonomous, oblivious, and homogeneous. Most of the existing works consider the
robot to be dimensionless or a point. Algorithm for Gathering fat robots (a robot is represented as a
unit disc) has been reported for three and four robots. We have proposed a distributed algorithm for
Gathering n (n > 5) autonomous, oblivious, homogeneous, asynchronous, fat robots. We have shown
that if the robots are orderable in a distributed fashion, they can be gathered. We characterize the
positions, when the robots are orderable. Some other problems in this domain that we plan to consider
are arbitrary pattern formation, pattern formation in the presence of obstacles, etc.
Krishnendu Mukhopadhyaya
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Unit
Multi-Script Document Recognition
In graphical or artistic documents the text lines are annotated in multiple orientations or curvilinear way
to illustrate different locations or symbols. We propose a novel method to segment such text lines and
the method is based on the foreground and background information of the text components. Touching
character segmentation problem becomes complex when touching strings are multi-oriented. We also
presented a scheme towards the segmentation of English multi-oriented touching strings into
individual characters. A dataset containing 26,720 handwritten legal amount words written in Hindi and
Marathi languages (Devanagari script) is developed and a training-free technique is developed to
recognize such handwritten legal amounts. We proposed a symbol spotting technique through hashing
the shape descriptors of graph paths (Hamiltonian paths). Although for postal automation there are
many pieces of work towards street name recognition on non-Indian languages, to the best of our
knowledge there is no work on street name recognition on Indian languages and we have developed a
system for recognition of Indian street name written in Bangla script.We also proposed an effective
staff line detection and removal method from musical scores. For handwritten text line segmentation,
databases for Bangla, Kannada, Persian and Oriya script have been developed. These databases are
available freely for research purpose.
Umapada Pal, R. Mandal and Souvik Bhowmick
Stemming for Information Retrieval
Stemming is a mechanism that is used to normalize morphologically related words. In an information

retrieval task, a stemmer serves two main purposes.
· It brings in more relevant documents by addressing the vocabulary mismatch problem: recall
improvement.
· It enhances the within document term frequency, which results in promotion of more relevant
documents at the top: precision improvement.
Naturally, the role of a stemmer is more useful if the concerned language is morphologically more
complex. A number of stemmers of varying spirit and flavor have been developed over the decades.
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Arguably, the most commonly used stemmers encode a set of static language specific rules to group
the words. By contrast, corpus based stemmers find groups using the ambient corpus, obviating the
language specific knowledge. Some corpus based stemmers use only the lexicon of the corpus,
whereas others use the co-occurrences of the words to find semantically more homogeneous groups.
We have developed a number of fully automatic stemming algorithms using the target corpus on which
search is performed. Our first algorithm focuses primarily on the execution speed of the algorithm in
producing the stems while not sacrificing the retrieval effectiveness. In our second algorithm we came
up with a novel graph based stemming algorithm which boosts retrieval performance significantly over
the state of the art algorithm with low computational cost. Our third algorithm, unlike the previous two
algorithms, uses the document level co-occurrence statistics as the primary form of evidence to find
the desired groups of morphologically related words. In this work we propose a strongest neighbour
based clustering algorithm which automatically finds the cluster of words without the specification of
any similarity threshold. We tested our algorithm on seven languages of varying origin and family
namely, East European (Hungarian, Bulgarian and Czech), Romance (French), Indian (Bengali,
Marathi) and English. The experimental results confirm the effectiveness of our algorithms on these
collections.
J.H. Paik, M. Mitra, D. Pal and S.K. Parui.
Automatic Reading of Texts in Camera Captured Images
We developed a robust scheme for detection of Devanagari or Bangla texts in scene images
improving our previous algorithm for the same purpose and the present approach is primarily based on
two major characteristics of such texts - (i) variations in stroke thickness for text components of a
script are low compared to their non-text counterparts and (ii) presence of a headline along with a few
vertical downward strokes originating from this headline. We use the Euclidean distance transform to
verify the general characteristics of texts in (i). Also, we apply the probabilistic Hough line transform to
detect the characteristic headline of Devanagari and Bangla texts. Further, similarity and adjacency
measures are applied to identify text regions, which do not satisfy the verification in (ii). The proposed
approach has been simulated on a repository of 120 images taken from Indian roads. Also, we studied
the above scheme for detection of English texts in natural scenes and towards this end we used
ICDAR 2003 Robust Reading Competition image database. Finally, we studied a novel zone-based
segmentation approach for Bangla texts extracted from scene images. Extracted scene texts are often
affected by artefacts and our segmentation algorithm can detect them efficiently.
U. Bhattacharya and S.K. Parui
Online Handwriting Recognition – Bangla
Developed a GUI-based semi-automatic scheme for annotation of unconstrained (mixed cursive)

online handwritten Bangla words at character boundary levels and another scheme for XML
representation of such annotated data. A holistic recognition scheme based on a novel approach of
combining MLP and SVM classifiers is studied for such unconstrained handwriting. Also, we identified
75 stroke classes present in a publicly available large database of online handwritten isolated Bangla
basic characters and developed a separate database of the above handwritten strokes. This is the first
such database for Bangla script. Additionally, we designed certain efficient features on the basis of
their extremum. We studied an efficient two-stage recognition approach based on the above feature
and a hidden Markov model (HMM) classifier. First, a probability distribution is estimated for each
stroke class using the stroke features and then an HMM based character classifier is designed using
each stroke class as a state. Finally, we designed a personalized handwriting recognition system that
is acceptably fast, light-weight, possessing a user-friendly interface with minimally-intrusive correction
and auto-personalization mechanisms for Android based devices.
S.K. Parui, U. Bhattacharya, P. Banik, C. Biswas, S. Baral, R. De,
S. Bhattacharya and O. Samanta,
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Blind quality assessment of image and video
The provision of blind quality assessment is an important requirement for modern multimedia and
communication systems. Fragile watermarking techniques have been proposed earlier for this
purpose. A novel approach which makes use of both fragile and robust watermarking techniques has
been developed. The embedded fragile watermark is used to assess the degradation undergone by
the transmitted images. Robust image features, on the other hand, are used to construct the reference
watermark from the received image, for assessing the amount of degradation of the fragile watermark.
Construction of the watermark from the image itself dispenses with the need for embedding an
extraneous watermark which must be made known to the user separately, a significant contribution in
image quality assessment. Another contribution is the use of Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) for
the extraction of the fragile watermark. The validity of the proposed approach has been verifed through
extensive simulations using different kinds of gray-scale and color images. A different approach,
completely blind, has been proposed for the quality assessment of images undergoing JPEG
compression. Simulations on a large number of well-known images have been used to demonstrate
the performance.
Image tamper detection, localization and correction
An approach for detecting tampering in images and also capable of restoring back the image, based
on watermarking, has been proposed. Besides being able to detect and correct the usual forms of
tampering such as the cut-and-paste attack, it is also sensitive to the more complex vector
quantization attack and can effectively detect and recover the image from the tampered one. The
watermark constructed from the image has two parts, one having the purpose of tamper detection
while the other part is used for recovering the untampered image. The second part uses fragile image
features which change with tampering. The entire watermark is embedded using a robust technique so
that it is not affected by tampering. Extensive experiments on standard images have been performed
to test the performance of this approach and the results found to be very satisfactory.
S. Palit and A. Bhattacharya
Information Retrieval from Indic Script OCR’d Text
his research concerns with retrieval of OCR’d text. Unlike English OCRs, Indic OCRs are not very
matured in producing high quality output and therefore, managing good IR efficiency is a challenge
while dealing with low quality OCR’d data. A probabilistic method has been developed to model the
OCR errors to help the IR engines. The framework has been tested on a large dataset of Bengali
OCR’d text. This research is now being extended to Hindi text. Because of this research a new
initiative called RISOT (retrieval of Indic script OCR’d text) has been started under FIRE (Forum for
Information Retrieval Evaluation) from 2011.
Machine Authentication of Security Documents
In the field of computational forensics, machine authentication of security paper documents is

attempted. Because of the easy availability of technological help, increasing amount of counterfeit
documents is posing a serious threat to our society. Therefore, automatic and low cost authentication
tool is needed to combat this evil. This research is aimed at developing techniques for quick and easy
authentication of security paper documents. Image processing and pattern recognition principles form
the basis of this authentication technique. The goal is two-fold: (i) to check security features in a
document in question in order to establish its authenticity, and at the same time (ii) analysis of security
features to grade them according to their vulnerability against counterfeiting effort in order to help the
designers for preparing of such security documents in future.
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Natural language processing and applications
Computational linguistics of Bengali is studied. As part of this research the basic NLP tools are being
developed first. After developing morphological analyzer, part-of-speech tagger, and chunker for
Bangla, a dependency parsing is attempted. The demand frames for Bangla verbs are considered as a
general linguistics resource that has been developed under this research. Both the rule based and
statistical frameworks are being explored. A new approach for pronominal anaphora resolution in
Bangla has been formulated. In a separate attempt, text-to-diagram conversion problem is targeted by
integrating artificial intelligence and NLP tools. Under this research, machine is able to draw the
diagram described in a piece of text (e.g. geometric/physics problems). This research has been
extended for the Blind people so that they can perceive the diagrams on a Braille print out.
OCR research
As part of OCR research, recognition of handwritten mathematical expressions is now studied. This
has resulted in a noteworthy advancement in the field of OCR of math expressions, a task required for
automatic conversion of scientific paper documents into electronic ones. Because of this research a
new initiative called CROHME (competition on recognition of handwritten mathematical expressions)
was organized for the first time under ICDAR (Int. Conf. on Document Analysis and Recognition) 2011
and then CROHME-II is organized under ICFHR (Int. Conf. on frontiers of handwriting recognition)
2012.
Utpal Garain, Apurbal Senapati, Ankush Roy, Tamaltaru Pal, Arabinda Shee,
Biswajit Halder, Doulas Oard, David Doermann, Suchismita Biswas,
Harold Mouchère, Christian Viard-Gaudin, Dae Hwan Kim,
and Jin H. Kim.
Documentation, Research and Training Centre (DRTC), Bangalore
The main areas of research in which the DRTC Faculty were engaged during the period are furnished
below
Knowledge Organization
The focus of Knowledge Organization has transformed substantially in the last one decade and as a
direct consequence of the emergence of digital resources, digital libraries and the World Wide Web.
Knowledge organization, today, has to meet the twin objectives of facilitating organization of
information resources for effective retrieval while at the same time look at ways and means of effective
tagging of the huge volume of digital resources to support retrieval at tolerable levels of precision.
Research on the following issues is being carried out:
· How to reshape and sharpen traditional knowledge organization tools such as classification
schemes and thesauri to meet the changing requirements of information representation and
retrieval?
· Development of Faceted Ontologies based Colon Classification Principles
Devika P. Madalli
· The revised e of Colon Classification is in progress. A revised edition of the scheme in Kannada
was completed and published by the Central Institute of Languages in 2011.
· The issues related to multilingual thesauri and lateral relations especially in the Humanities and
culture-specific domains are being studied. A few papers have been published based on these
studies.
· The problems and issues in building the digital collection of resources in Kanada and Tamil with
focus on full-text indexing are being studied.
K.S. Raghavan
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Digital Libraries and Semantic Web
Research carried out in faceted ontologies in social and media research. Study of Wordnet for
semantic compatibility as part of EU funded FET Living Knowledge Project, under taken. The main
objective of the project is to develop ontologies using faceted approach, in order to provide
folksonomies which should facilitate visualizations to the end-user. Actively pursuing research in
webontologies using RDF (Resource Description Framework), OWL (Web Ontology Language) and
SKOS (Simple Knowledge Organization system). The ultimate goal is to develop context based search
mechanisms combined with inference engines. Digital Library of DRTC conference and seminar
volumes project completed and implemented.
A.R.D. Prasad and Devika P Madalli
Multilingual data in Indian languages for Universal Decimal Classification
Coordination and supervision of translation and mapping of concepts for Universal Decimal
Classification in Indian languages such as Hindi, Kannada, Tamil, Telugu, Marathi and Punjabi.
Devika P Madalli
Library and Information Technology
In the recent past, several technology applications to library and information work have been
demonstrated. As a part of this kind of research, a LiveCD called Liblivecd had been released. It is
preconfigured with Dspace digital library software + Koha, Library Management Software + PKP
Harvester (which collects metadata from various digital/institutional repositories to provide a single
stop search engine) + dbwiz, a federated search engine which facilitate searches across e-jounals and
online databases. The Liblivecd is hosted on http://sourceforge.net/projects/liblivecd. As of May, 2010
more than 3000 downloads have taken place.
A.R.D. Prasad
Institutional Repositories
In the 1990’s a movement was started to enhance public access to scholarly journal articles through
the pre-print servers. In these servers, authors would deposit their pre-prints. It thus provided readers
worldwide with a quick access to research outputs. These types of servers began as informal vehicles
for the dissemination of preliminary research and those literatures which were not peer reviewed.
However, the last decade witnessed the rapid evolution of these into increasingly important media for
dissemination of research results in certain fields. In this context attempts were made to:
· Study the Feasibility of designing and developing an appropriate prototype Institutional

Repository (IRs) model using open source software easily implementable in all the universities
in India.
· Study the adequacy of existing standards in this regard especially for scholarly material in Indian
languages and scripts.
· Design an end user interface for browsing, navigating through and searching the Institutional
Repository.
A.R.D. Prasad and M.Krishnamurthy.
Bibliometrics and Scientometrics
Attempts were made to study the growth of literature and its impact on library collection development.
Different scientometric measures such as h-index, g-index and impact factors were also studied. A
project was also under taken to study the pattern of downloading of online literature.
I.K. Ravichandra Rao
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Electronics and Communication Sciences Unit
Data Management and Data Security
Archival of Trusted Information: An effort has been taken to design a data model for storage and
retrieval of trusted communication. It is well known that any trust based communication is associated
with uncertainty that changes over time. An effort is being taken to model such data as a probabilistic
temporal Database.
A. Bagchi
Access Control over Digital Library Ontology
Modifying a digital library ontology to support multiple inheritance, an effort is being taken to develop a
suitable access control model. The ultimate purpose is to develop a generalized Ontology Based
Access Control (OBAC) model suitable for various Semantic Web-Based applications.
A. Bagchi
Video Processing and Retrieval
Video segmentation is an essential step for video summarization and video indexing/retrieval. In this
case the segmentation is done by dividing the video stream into shots, which may be treated as
smallest semantic unit. For that purpose a model based shot boundary detection technique using
frame transition parameters is proposed. The method produces well accepted results. For the human
action recognition from video, problem of recognition of Indian classical dance is chosen as a case
study. A novel action recognition scheme is developed using ‘pose’ dictionary based on sparse
coding.
B. Chanda
Image processing and Analysis
Producing high resolution image from low resolution ones is an important task to overcome hardware
limitations. The technique is known as super resolution (SR) image reconstruction. We have
developed multi-frame SR image reconstruction algorithm based morphological regularization. Results
are superior to that of the existing algorithms. An already developed sketch to photo synthesis
algorithm is now upgraded to photo retrieval / recognition from sketch. As applications of image
analysis techniques to forensic and criminology, algorithms for off-line signature verification, detection
of fraudulent alteration in ball-point pen strokes and writer recognition are developed. Some new
image fusion and image inpainting algorithms are developed under the activity of image processing.
B. Chanda
Computational Intelligence
We discuss limitations of existing measures of uncertainty (entropy) for Atanassov's intuitionistic fuzzy
sets (AIFS). We point out and justify that there are at least two facets of uncertainty of an AIFS, one of
which is related to fuzziness while the other is related to lack of knowledge or non-specificity. For
each facet of uncertainty, we propose a separate set of axioms. Then for each of fuzziness and non-
specificity we propose a generating family (class) of measures. Each family is illustrated with several
examples. In this context we prove several interesting results about the measures of uncertainty. We
prove some results that help us to construct new measures of uncertainty of both kinds.
N.R. Pal
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Bioinformatics
Identification of amino acid propensities that are strong determinants of linear B-cell epitope is very
important to enrich our knowledge about epitopes. This can also help to obtain better epitope
prediction. Typical linear B-cell epitope prediction methods combine various propensities in different
ways to improve prediction accuracies. However, fewer but better features may yield better prediction.
Moreover, for a propensity, when the sequence length is k, there will be k values, which should be
treated as a single unit for feature selection and hence usual feature selection method will not work.
Here we use a novel Group Feature Selecting Multilayered Perceptron, which treats a group of related
information as a single entity and selects useful propensities related to linear B-cell epitopes, and uses
them to predict epitopes.
N.R. Pal
Studying Architectural Distortion in Mammogram
We have explored a set of orientation sensitive texture detector using Gabor filters to characterize
intensity values of the mammogram. It is observed that intensity orientations are either converging to a
point or diverging out from a point in case there is an architectural distortion (AD) at that image point of
the mammogram. We have used Gaussian mixture model to successfully localize these AD points in
mammogram.
D.P. Mukherjee
Evolutionary Computing and Swarm Intelligence
Efficient variants of the Differential Evolution algorithm have been derived to provide elegant solutions
of dynamic single and multi-objective optimization problems, where the nature of the functional
landscape changes with time. Inter-agent communication, search dynamics and the chaotic dynamical
characteristics of certain simulated swarms have been investigated both analytically and
experimentally to gain better insight into the coordinated swarm control observed in nature. Some of
the devised optimization algorithms have also been applied to solve some challenging antenna array
optimization problems.
S. Das
Study on Temporal Variation of Aerosol in Relation to Variation of Boundary Layer at Giridih

(Indo-Gangetic Plain)
After solving the power fluctuation problem with the appropriate voltage stabilizing system, routine
observation of suspended particulate matter (RSPM) by the air sampler machine (SD-8) was carried
out. In this project, aerosol content of the atmosphere over the south eastern part of the Indo-Gangetic
plane, especially at the colliery belt at Giridih, Jharkhand was measured. During last six months
(October 2011 to March 2012) a total of 56 samples were collected on pre-heated (450oC) filter papers
(20×25 cm2) for 8 hour [on day and night basis (10:00h to 18:00h and 20:00h to 04:00h) and
averaged]. The filter papers were weighed before and after the sampling/experiment in order to
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determine the air mass (µg m ) of the PM10 collected. These collected samples were stored under dry
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condition at -20 C till analysis. Water soluble ionic components (WSIC) of PM10 was being analyzed
using Ion Chromatograph and Organic Carbon (OC) as well as Elemental Carbon EC analysis has
been carried out by OC/EC carbon analyzer at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL), New Delhi.
For the said period data related to health (respiratory problem and death case) were also collected
from the local government hospital. Presently we are preparing the report of this investigation for the
purpose of further application of all generated data. Meanwhile we have analyzed OC, EC and WSIC
data at NPL, New Delhi and developed neural network model for estimation of OC and EC from WSIC
of particulates along with meteorological data. The results have been submitted for publication in a
reputed international journal.
N.C. Deb
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Machine Intelligence Unit
Bioinformatics
Pearson correlation coefficient is often used to measure the similarity between a pair of genes given
their expression values over a number of conditions or time points. A limitation of this measure is that
while it can identify similarity of patterns, it is unable to identify amount of deviation of the patterns.
Pointing out the fact that this is sometimes important in the domain of biological data, a new measure
of co-expression analysis called BioSim, has been developed. MicroRNAs (miRNA) are short non-
coding RNAs believed to be intricately involved in many diseases including cancer. It is well-known
that miRNAs regulate target mRNAs through translational repression or degradation. Moreover,
miRNAs are themselves regulated by one or more transcription factors (TFs) either along with the host
genes (particularly true for intra-genic miRNAs) or independently (particularly true for inter-genic
miRNAs). A gene-TF-miRNA network has been built based on both putative as well as validated
information. A novel topological overlap based graph clustering method has been devised, suitable for
a weighted digraph. This new clustering technique yields significantly functionally enriched modules of
miRNAs and TFs which are associated with a number of common diseases. Interestingly, regulations
between pairs of miRNAs are also predicted from this network. For predicting the target mRNAs of
miRNAs, a technique called MultiMiTar has been developed. It is an improvement over an earlier
version TargetMiner. The key to the effectiveness of both TargetMiner and MultiMiTar, is the
systematically identified set of biologically relevant negative samples along with the biologically
validated positive samples used to train and fine-tune an SVM-classifier. In addition, the sophisticated
multi-objective feature selection, called AMOSA-SVM, employed in MultiMiTar further improved its
performance. MultiMiTar (as also TargetMiner) has been made publicly available
(http://www.isical.ac.in/~bioinfo_miu/multimitar.htm). An algorithm for the transcription start site
prediction of miRNAs has been developed using several sequence based features as well as novel
CpG island based features and sophisticated multiobjective feature selection. The protein-protein
interaction network (PPIN) between human and HIV1 proteins is considered as a bipartite graph. It is
subsequently mined with an exhaustive graph search technique to identify the strong significant
biclusters, which are effectively the bicliques. They are unified further to form the core bipartite
subnetwork. From this, the secondary significant proteins and thereafter miRNAs are identified by
mapping these gateway proteins to the human protein–protein interaction network. Finally, these
proteins are mapped onto the TF-to-miRNA and miRNA-to-gene regulatory networks derived from a
couple of current studies to obtain a global view of the HIV-1 mediated TF-gene-miRNA inter-
regulatory network. Interestingly, a few miRNAs participating in this pathway at the secondary level are
found to have oncogenic involvement.
S. Bandhopadhyay
Predicting the functions of unannotated genes is one of the major challenges of biological
investigation. A single data source can be used for such task but it often lacks the degree of accuracy
needed for accurate gene function prediction. This can be improved by integrating different data
sources in an efficient manner. A weighted power scoring framework, called weighted power biological
score (WPBS), has been used for combining different biological data sources and predicting the
function of some of the unclassified yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae genes. The relative power and
weight coefficients of different data sources, in the score, were systematically estimated by utilizing
functional annotations of classified genes, available from Saccharomyces Genome Database. Genes
were then clustered by applying k-medoids algorithm on WPBS, and novel functional predictions of
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334 unclassified genes were made using a P-value cutoff 1 × 10 . These predictions may provide
new directions in biological research. The WPBS is available online at
http://www.isical.ac.in/~shubhra/WPBS/WPBS.html, where one can download WPBS, related files,
and a MATLAB code to predict functions of unclassified genes. One of the important goals of biological
investigation is to classify and organize the experimental findings so that they are readily useful for
deriving generalized rules. Although there is a huge amount of information on RNA structures in PDB,
there are redundant files, ambiguous synthetic sequences etc. Moreover, a systematic hierarchical
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organization, reflecting RNA classification, is missing in PDB. In this regard, all the available RNA
crystal structures from PDB have been classified into nine functional classes, through a programmatic
approach.
S.S. Ray
Clustering is one of the important analysis in functional genomics that discovers groups of co-
expressed genes from microarray data. The rough-fuzzy c-means (RFCM) algorithm has been used
to discover co-expressed gene clusters. One of the major issues of the RFCM based microarray data
clustering is how to select initial prototypes of different clusters. To overcome this limitation, a method
has been proposed to select initial cluster centers. It enables the RFCM algorithm to converge to
optimum or near optimum solutions and helps to discover co-expressed gene clusters. A method has
also been introduced based on Dunn's cluster validity index to identify optimum values of different
parameters of the initialization method and the RFCM algorithm. The effectiveness of the RFCM
algorithm, along with a comparison with other related methods, is demonstrated on several yeast gene
expression time-series data sets using Silhouette index, Davies-Bouldin index, and gene ontology
based analysis.
P. Maji
A number of clustering and biclustering algorithms have been compared for grouping genes based on
their expression profiles. In particular, the methods of clustering has been divided into eight different
categories. Then, specific characteristics pertinent to each clustering category has been presented.
We have compared the results of 27 clustering/biclustering algorithms on various gene expression
datasets using different cluster validation indices. Comparison has been made in terms of P -value on
the best and three best clusters obtained by each algorithm along with overall results using z-score.
Biclustering algorithms have also been compared in terms of their capacity in handling overlapping
biclusters. Finally, some guidelines were provided for the development of new clustering algorithms for
gene expression data analysis.
R.K. De
Systems Biology
Certain physical, chemical or genetic change in any of the precursor substrate of a biochemical
reaction may damage the production of the ultimate product. A quantitative approach was employed
for simulating this phenomenon by performing external perturbations to various metabolic pathways
under carbohydrate metabolism in S. cerevisae and H. sapiens. The relationship between structure
and degree of compatibility of metabolites was investigated against external perturbations.
Robustness can be further used to identify the extent to which a metabolic pathway can resist a
mutation event. Biological networks with a certain connectivity distribution may be very resilient to a
particular attack but not to another. The goal of this work was to determine the exact boundary of
network breakdown due to both random and targeted attack, thereby analyzing its robustness. It was
found that, compared to various non-standard models, metabolic networks are exceptionally robust.
The use of a ‘Resilience-based’ score was developed for enumerating the concept of ‘network-
breakdown’. A novel algorithm, called StructurAl Grammar-based automated PAthway Reconstruction
(SAGPAR) was developed for automated pathway reconstruction. Users can model any pathway
based on some pre-required features that are asked as input by the algorithm. The algorithm also
takes various thermodynamic thresholds and structural properties into consideration while modeling a
pathway. The effectiveness of SAGPAR has been demonstrated, along with comparisons, on the
standard pathway datasets of 25 pathways of M. pneumonia M129 and 24 pathways of H. sapiens.
The dataset has been taken from KEGG and PubChem Compound data repositories. SAGPAR has
performed much better than some already available metabolic pathway analysis tools like Copasi,
PHT, Gepasi, Jarnac and Path-A.
R.K. De
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Pattern Recognition
A new method of feature selection was developed, based on structural similarity. The topological
neighborhood information about pairs of objects (or patterns), to partition(s), was taken into
consideration while computing a measure of structural similarity. This was termed proximity, and was
defined in terms of membership values. Multi-objective evolutionary optimization was employed to
arrive at a consensus solution in terms of the contradictory criteria pair involving fuzzy proximity and
feature set cardinality. Results for real and synthetic datasets, of low, medium and high dimensionality,
showed that the method led to a correct selection of the reduced feature subset. Comparative study
was also provided, and quantified in terms of accuracy of classification and clustering validity indices.
Satellite images often required segmentation in the presence of uncertainty, caused due to factors like
environmental conditions, poor resolution and poor illumination. Since any subsequent image analysis
depends on the quality of such segmentation, one has to obtain an efficient algorithm for the purpose.
The newly developed shadowed clustering algorithm was mapped to the problem of segmenting
remotely sensed images. It has been observed that shadowed clustering could efficiently handle
overlapping among segments while modeling uncertainty among the boundaries. Unlike rough
clustering, here the choice of user-defined parameters was fully eliminated. The number of segments
was automatically optimized in terms of validity indices. The algorithm was found to be robust in the
presence of outliers. The superiority of the system was demonstrated in segmenting a synthetic
image, along with land cover types from the Indian Remote Sensing (IRS) images of the cities of
Mumbai and Kolkata and the SPOT image around Kolkata. The algorithm was found to efficiently and
accurately extract the different homogeneous regions in the presence of uncertainty. The results were
analyzed both qualitatively and quantitatively.
S. Mitra
Feature selection is an important problem encountered in pattern recognition, machine learning, data
mining, and bioinformatics. It refers to the problem of selecting those input attributes or features that
are most effective to predict the sample categories. In this regard, a feature selection method has
been proposed based on fuzzy-rough sets by maximizing both relevance and significance of the
selected features. Different feature evaluation criteria such as dependency, relevance, redundancy,
and significance have been used for attribute selection task using fuzzy-rough sets. The performance
of different rough set models has been compared with that of some existing feature evaluation indices
based on the predictive accuracy of nearest neighbor rule, support vector machine, and decision tree.
The effectiveness of the fuzzy-rough set based attribute selection method, along with a comparison
with existing feature evaluation indices and different rough set models, has been demonstrated on
different benchmark data sets.
P. Maji
For efficient recognition, often we need invariant features. A new approach has been developed to
extract features, which are scale and rotation invariant, from graylevel images. This uses a new
recursion to compute Zernike moments. Here, instead of considering the problem in the analytic
domain, we have viewed the entire problem in the discrete domain. This has made the algorithm
faster. Furthermore, the algorithm is a novel one as the orthogonality has been considered on the unit
discrete disc. Few more algorithms are under investigation for rotational invariance. This includes
DWT and DFT.
S. Biswas
Multiobjective clustering was integrated with a multi-seed approach along with a measure of symmetry
to identify clusters of any shape and size. This was applied for segmentation of MR brain image.
Moreover, a new measure of stability of the clusters obtained through bootstrapping of the data has
been used as one of the objectives to be optimized in multiobjective optimization.
S. Bandyopadhyay
A modification in the K-NN rule has been proposed wherein the method goes on looking for nearest
neighbors till the difference between the number of representatives of the two most frequent classes
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among the nearest neighbors is at least a given threshold value. This method was found to give better
results than the usual NN classifier when the number of points in the training set was large. A new
method of document similarity, named "extensive similarity” has been proposed. Its utility for clustering
documents has been demonstrated on several data sets. It was also found to provide better results
than the other document clustering algorithms.
C.A. Murthy
Image Processing/ Video Image Analysis
An efficient illumination invariant face recognition method based on two-stage two dimensional linear
discriminant analysis (2S2DLDA) has been designed. The proposed method uses a reflectance-
illumination model (RI-Model) based on maximum filter to obtain illumination invariants of an image.
Various combinations of two dimensional feature extraction techniques (PCA, 2DPCA family and
2DLDA family) with RI-Model are analyzed for the first time in the paradigm of face recognition
problem. A vital unresolved problem of 2DLDA is that it needs large feature matrix for the task of
recognition, as it considers only row correlation. 2S2DLDA method overcomes this problem by
considering both row and column correlations. Nearest Neighbourhood (NN) classification approach is
adopted for classification. For experimental purpose Yale B and Extended Yale B face databases were
used. The performance superiority of the combination RI-Model and 2S2DLDA (proposed) among all
other combinations was established through extensive experiments. Moving object detection has been
done by combining two kinds of segmentation schemes: temporal and spatial. It has been found that
consideration of a global thresholding approach for temporal segmentation, where the threshold value
is obtained by considering the histogram of the difference image corresponding to two frames, does
not produce good result for moving object detection. This is due to the fact that the pixels in the lower
end of the histogram are not identified as changed pixels (but they actually correspond to the changed
regions). Hence there is an effect on object background classification. A local histogram thresholding
scheme has been designed to segment the difference image by dividing it into a number of small non-
overlapping regions/windows and thresholding each window separately. The window/block size has
been determined by measuring the entropy content of it. The segmented regions from each window
were combined to find the (entire) segmented image. This thresholded difference image was called the
change detection mask (CDM) and represented the changed regions corresponding to the moving
objects in the given image frame. The difference image was generated by considering the label
information of the pixels from the spatially segmented output of two image frames. It has been
observed that the entropy based adaptive window selection scheme yielded better results for moving
object detection with less effect on object background (mis) classification. The effectiveness of the
proposed scheme was successfully tested over three video sequences. Two fuzzy clustering
algorithms, namely Fuzzy C-Means (FCM) and Gustafson Kessel Clustering (GKC), have been used
for unsupervised change detection in multi-temporal remote sensing images. In conventional FCM &
GKC no spatio-contextual information is taken into account and thus the result is not so much robust
to noise/outliers. By incorporation of local neighborhood information the performance of the algorithms
was enhanced. Change detection maps were obtained by separating the pixel patterns of the
difference image into two groups.
A. Ghosh
Content Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) system is an emerging research area in effective digital data
management and retrieval paradigm. A novel CBIR system based on a new Ripplet Transform (RT)
was developed to improve further the retrieval result and to reduce the computational complexity. The
scheme utilized a Neural Network (NN) based classifier for image pre-classification, similarity
matching using Manhattan distance measure and relevance feedback mechanism (RFM) using fuzzy
entropy based feature evaluation technique. Extensive experiments were done to evaluate the
effectiveness of the proposed technique. The performance of the CBIR system was evaluated using a
2 X 5-fold cross validation followed by a statistical analysis. The experimental results suggest that the
newly developed system based on RT, performed better than many existing CBIR schemes based on
other transforms, and the difference was statistically significant. A new multimodality Medical Image
Fusion (MIF) method, based on a novel combined Activity Level Measurement (ALM) and Contourlet
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Transform (CNT) for spatially registered, multi-sensor, multi-resolution medical images has been
developed. The source medical images were first decomposed by CNT. The low-frequency sub-bands
(LFSs) were employed using the novel combined ALM, and the high-frequency sub-bands (HFSs)
were fused according to their ‘local average energy’ of the neighborhood of coefficients. Then inverse
contourlet transform (ICNT) was applied to the fused coefficients to get the fused image. The
performance of the proposed scheme was evaluated by various quantitative measures like Mutual
Information (MI), Spatial Frequency (SF), and Entropy (EN). Visual and quantitative analysis and
comparisons showed the effectiveness of the proposed scheme in fusing multimodality medical
images. Extensive experiments were performed with images of various modalities like MRI (T1 and
T2), CT, and PET. The results showed significant improvement in fused image quality. The blind,
fragile and Region of Interest (ROI) lossless Medical Image Watermarking (MIW) technique has been
developed, providing an all-in-one solution tool to various medical data distribution and management
applications. The method simultaneously addresses various issues of medical data management like
security, content authentication, safe archiving, controlled access retrieval and captioning. The
developed scheme, combines lossless data compression and encryption technique to imperceptibly
embed Electronic Patient Report (EPR), or the metadata part of DICOM data in the medical images.
Moreover the technique also embeds the image hash, indexing keywords and tamper localization
information for safety and security of the valuable medical data. Performance of the scheme was
evaluated through various image quality measures such as Peak Signal-to-Noise Ratio (PSNR),
Weighted-PSNR (WPSNR), Mean Structural SIMilarity Index (MSSIM). The experimental results
confirmed the effectiveness and efficiency of the proposed technique in various medical image
management application domains
M.K. Kundu
A face recognition algorithm, in general, exhibits poor performance when exposed to different lighting
conditions. This is because the features extracted for classification are not illumination invariant. To get
rid of the illumination problem, the 3-dimensional depth images of the corresponding 2-dimensional
graylevel face images have been used. This is because the 3-D depth image depicts the physical
surface of the face and thus, provides the shape of human face. The primary reason is that such a
shape depends on the gradient values of the physical surface of the face, i.e., on the difference of
intensity values and not on the absolute values of intensity. Such a shape can be obtained using a
shape from shading algorithm and subsequently can be used for feature extraction. The
Coiflet/wavelet and Radon transform were used to compute energy for feature extraction. Since, the
linear discriminant analysis (LDA) groups the similar classes in an optimal way in the eigen space and
so the k-NN classifier can be used for classification. The L1 norm and Mahalanobis distance were
used to test for classification.
S. Biswas
The M-band wavelet packet analysis and rough-fuzzy clustering algorithm have been used to segment
a document having text and graphics, assuming that the text and non-text regions have different
textural properties. The M-band wavelet packet was used to extract the scale-space features. The
wavelet packet offers a richer range of possibilities for document image and M-band wavelets are able
to zoom it onto narrowband high frequency components of a signal. A scale-space feature vector has
been derived, taken at different scales for each pixel in an image. The decomposition scheme
employing M-band wavelet packet lead to a large number of redundant features. Hence, an
unsupervised feature selection method has been developed to select relevant and non-redundant
features for text-graphics segmentation. However, one of the main problems in document image
segmentation analysis is uncertainty. To address this problem, the rough-fuzzy c-means algorithm has
been used for segmentation. The whole approach of text-graphics segmentation needs not assume or
take care of any apriori information such as the font size, scanning resolution, and type of layout.
P. Maji
A method was proposed for estimation of facial expression intensity from a sequence of binary facial
images obtained from video. The binarization has been done using a neuro-visual model of figure
ground segregation. The Local Binary Pattern (LBP) was taken as characteristic feature of a face with
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expression. This pattern gets evolved in the temporal domain over the sequence. The dynamics of the
pattern, starting from a neutral face, was characterised by Hausdorff distance. Back Propagation (BP)
Neural Networks were trained to estimate the expression intensity level of the basic expressions.
K. Ghosh
A new algorithm for face recognition has been devised using the method of set estimation. Its utility
has been successfully established for finding imposters to a system. It was found to provide better
results than ROC based recognition system. The algorithm has been extended to color images and
videos. Additionally, it was also found to do well under different feature extraction schemes like PCA,
wavelet PCA, PCA-LDA, 2DPCA, and Kernel PCA. New face images of the personnel in the database
were successfully generated using the set estimation scheme. It has also been found to be useful in
face detection.
C. A. Murthy
Machine Vision and Perception
It is a well-known fact that the perceived brightness of any surface depends on the brightness of the
surfaces that surround it. This phenomenon is termed as brightness induction. Isotropic arrays of
multi-scale DoG (Difference of Gaussians) as well as cortical Oriented DoG (ODOG) and extensions
thereof, like the Frequency-specific Locally Normalized ODOG (FLODOG) functions have been
employed towards prediction of the direction of brightness induction in many brightness perception
effects. But the neural basis of such spatial filters is seldom obvious. Three different spatial filters
based on an extended classical receptive field (ECRF) model of retinal ganglion cells, have been
approximately related to the spatial contrast sensitivity functions of these three parallel channels.
Based on our analysis involving different brightness perception effects, it has been proposed that the
M channel, with maximum conduction velocity, may have a special role for an initial sensorial
perception. As a result, brightness assimilation may be the consequence of vision at a glance through
the M pathway; contrast effect may be the consequence of a subsequent vision with scrutiny through
the P channel; and the K pathway response may represent an intermediate situation resulting in
ambiguity in brightness perception. Attempt was made to correlate this phenomenon of pathway
selection with the complementary nature of these channels in terms of spatial frequency as well as
contrast.
Mach bands are the pronounced light and dark bands visible where a luminance plateau meets a ramp
as in a penumbra. A great deal of effort has been devoted to study these in order to understand the
underlying neural circuitry. A number of theoretical models, linear and non-linear, have consequently
been proposed starting from the seminal studies of Ernst Mach himself. We have demonstrated why
no linear model of visual perception can explain the Mach band illusion although many such attempts
have been made starting from that of Mach to some recent ones. From the same approach, it was also
systematically demonstrated why the Mach bands are weak or inexistent at step changes of intensity.
A new aspect, viz. the scaling properties of the widths of Mach band has been studied to provide a
unified approach to solve both these problems in vision.
K. Ghosh
Information Retrieval
A novel term weighting scheme for vector space retrieval has been developed. The scheme consists
of three components, namely, term frequency (tf), inverse document frequency (idf) and a newly
introduced factor, named as document weight (dw). Document weight was taken as the document
length normalization component. The performance of the proposed method was verified on some real
life data sets including TIPSTER Text Research Collection and was found to be superior to other
related methods. The proposed term weighting scheme was able to circumvent the effect web spam
and content spamming such as keyword stuffing, hidden unrelated text and meta tag stuffing. The
proposed method was found to be effective against keyword stuffing based content spamming while
implemented on some artificially generated spam versions of TIPSTER Text Research Collection. A
new document indexing scheme for information retrieval was proposed. With the help of a
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summarization technique, a weight was assigned to each sentence in a document signifying the
importance of the sentence in the document. Accordingly, the term frequency of a term was decided as
the sum of weights of the sentences the term belongs. On some real life FIRE (Forum for Information
Retrieval Evaluation) datasets, the performances of all the leading leading information retrieval models
were found to be superior.
D.P. Mandal
Systems Science and Informatics Unit
SSIU Research Activities in Computing in Science and Engineering
Broad areas of research at SSIU fall under the category ‘Computing in Science and Engineering”
essentially to address challenges of both basic and applied nature. Towards this the broad objective of
SSIU is to pursue high quality research work related to computing in interdisciplinary science and
engineering, systems science and informatics related topics. Currently faculty members of SSIU are
pursuing vigorous research programs in Spatial Informatics, Computational Neuroscience, and
Computational Intelligence. Goal is to conduct quality research, in the areas of interest to SSIU—that
competes for space for publications in journals of repute—involving advanced spatial statistical tools
(e.g. mathematical morphology, fractal geometry, fuzzy set theory, rough set theory, neural networks,
digital image processing and analysis, signal theory, game theory etc), and applications of such tools
in various domains like geospatial, biology and medicine, and several other socially relevant
application domains. We aim to develop frameworks to address all the above components to
demonstrate their potential utilities in domains such as (but not limited to) geospatial and
neuroscience. These areas of research are presently being carried out in two broad research groups:
Spatial Informatics Research Group, and Computational Neuroscience Research Group.
B.S. Daya Sagar, Kaushik Majumdar and Saroj Meher
Generation of zonal map from point data via weighted skeletonization by influence zone
Data about many variables are available as numerical values at specific geographical locations. A
methodology based on mathematical morphology to convert point-specific data into zonal map has
been proposed. This methodology relies on weighted skeletonization by zone of influence (WSKIZ)
that determines the points of contact of multiple frontlines propagating, from various points spread
over the space, at the travelling rates depending upon the variable's strength. This approach has been
demonstrated for converting rainfall data available at specific rain gauge locations (points) into a
spatially distributed zonal map that suggests zones of equal rainfall.
B.S. Daya Sagar, H.M. Rajashekara and Partap Vardhan
Derivation of a spatially significant zone within a cluster of zones via dilation distances
The ability to derive spatially significant zones (e.g. water bodies, zones of influence) within a cluster
of zones has interesting applications in understanding commonly sharing physical mechanisms. Using
morphological dilation distance technique, we introduce geometrically-based criteria that serve as
indicator of the spatial significance of zones within a cluster of zones. This work focuses on the
problem of identifying zones that are ‘strategic’ in the sense that they are the most central or important
based on their proximity to other zones. This technique has been applied on a theme depicting water
bodies retrieved from IRS LISS-III satellite image.
B.S. Daya Sagar, N. Rajesh, S. Ashok Vardhan and Partap Vardhan
Directional spatial relationship via origin-specific silation-distances
Thematic maps generated from remotely sensed satellite data consists of spatial objects (planar sets)
of varied degrees of spatial complexity. We provide an approach to compute origin-specific
morphological dilation distances between planar sets to further determine the directional spatial
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relationship between sets. Origin chosen for a structuring element (B) that yields shorter dilation
distance than that of the other possible origins of B determines the directional spatial relationship
between Ai (origin-set) and Aj (destination set). This approach has been demonstrated on (i) a cluster
of spatial sets (states) decomposed from a spatial map depicting country India, and (ii) water
bodies traced from SPOT PLA data.
B.S. Daya Sagar
A geometric analysis of time domain signals: from mathematics to medicine
A novel geometric analysis of time domain signals is being carried out to extract important information
from multichannel data. In this approach a rigorous mathematical definition of a signal has been
proposed, which is broad based enough to encompass almost all signals in real life. The second order
differentiable (difference) structure of signals has been analyzed (Conjecture: For an analog signal
defined on a compact interval, the second order derivative may not exist only at a finite number of
points). The notion of power in the classical mechanics (completely different from the notion of
amplitude based power of the signals) has been extended to time domain signals leading to a novel
multichannel information retrieval algorithm. This has been applied on epileptic depth EEG data to
gain some novel insights.
K. Majumdar
Novel spike-train distance measure
An efficient spike-train distance measure has been implemented on a large number of simulated
neuronal spike trains with added white noise of SNR up to 0.5 (50%). Multiple statistical features from
the spike trains have been extracted. With those features a metric on the space of spike trains has
been defined. With the help of this metric the new algorithm is working with greater accuracy than the
one of the most reliable algorithms known (van Rossum, Neural Computation, 13: 751 - 763, 2001).
However it runs slower.
Kaushik Majumdar and Shubhunshu Shekar
Class-dependent rough-fuzzy granular space, dispersion index and classification
In this research work, a new rough-fuzzy model for pattern classification based on granular computing
is described. In this model, we propose the formulation of class-dependent granules in fuzzy
environment. Fuzzy membership functions are used to represent the feature-wise belonging to
different classes, thereby producing fuzzy granulation of the feature space. The fuzzy granules thus
generated possess better class discriminatory information that is useful in pattern classification with
overlapping classes. Neighborhood rough sets are used in the selection of a subset of granulated
features that explore the local/contextual information from neighbor granules. The model thus explores
mutually the advantages of class-dependent fuzzy granulation and neighborhood rough set. The
superiority of the proposed model to other similar methods is established with seven completely
labeled data sets and two partially labeled real remote sensing images collected from satellites.
S.K. Pal, Saroj K. Meher and S. Dutta
Rough-wavelet granular space and classification of multispectral remote sensing image
A new rough-wavelet granular space based model for land cover classification of multispectral remote
sensing image, is described in this research contribution. In this model, we propose the formulation of
class-dependent (CD) granules in wavelet domain using shift-invariant wavelet transform (WT). Shift-
invariant WT is carried out with properly selected wavelet base and decomposition level(s). The
transform is used to characterize the feature-wise belonging of granules to different classes, thereby
producing wavelet granulation of the feature space. The wavelet granules thus generated possess
better class discriminatory information. The granulated feature space not only analyzes the contextual
information in time or frequency domain individually, but also looks into the combined time-frequency
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domain. These characteristics of the generated CD wavelet granules are very useful in the pattern
classification with overlapping classes.
S.K. Meher and S.K. Pal
Wavelet-fuzzy-hybridization: feature-extraction and land-cover classification of remote sensing

images
The research work focuses on a wavelet feature based supervised scheme for fuzzy classification of
land covers in multispectral remote sensing images. The proposed scheme is developed in the
framework of wavelet-fuzzy hybridization, a soft computing approach. The wavelet features obtained
from wavelet transform on an image provides spatial and spectral characteristics (i.e., texture
information) of pixels and hence can be utilized effectively for improving accuracy in classification,
instead of using original spectral features. Four different fuzzy classifiers are considered for this
purpose and evaluated using different wavelet features. Wavelet feature based fuzzy classifiers
produced consistently better results compared to original spectral feature based methods on various
images used in the present investigation.
B.U. Shankar, S.K. Meher and A. Ghosh
Efficient detection and counting of moving vehicles with region-level analysis of video frames
The problem of detecting and counting of moving vehicle (MV) in a road traffic scenario, where
background subtraction (BS) plays a vital role, has been discussed. BS in a video sequence is an
open problem with many practical applications including camera surveillance system, human-
computer interactions, etc. Among the various methods of BS, frame difference method is a simple
and most adopted one. However, the performance of frame deference method depends on the proper
selection of a set of frames. To meet this problem, an efficient and fast processing approach for
detecting and counting of MVs has been described. A region/block-level analysis of frames is
performed in this approach, which requires less processing time and provides more accurate results
compared to the conventional pixel-level analysis. Fuzzy flood fill mean shift based segmentation
algorithm has been used for this present study, which is robust under the illumination effects; such as
shadows, shades, and highlights. In pixel-level analysis, segmentation operation is performed on the
difference frame obtained from two test frames and detection of MV is made subsequently.
S.K. Meher and M.N. Murty
Fuzzy impulse noise detector for efficient image restoration
This work proposes an efficient restoration model for images corrupted with impulse noise of varying
values that follow a random distribution over some dynamic range. The model extracts a set of
informative features, uses a fuzzy detector based on product aggregation reasoning rule for noisy
pixels detection and noise removal operator for filtration. The fuzzy set-based detector provides a
better learning and generalization capability for improved detection. The model thus explores mutually
the advantages of both fuzzy detector and noise removal operator. Superiority of the proposed model
to other similar methods is established both visually and quantitatively in removing impulse noise from
highly corrupted images.
S.K. Meher and P. Patel
Derivation of spatially significant set via spatial analysis and reasoning
The ability to recognize strategically important set(s) within a cluster has interesting applications in
geographical information science (GISci). This project focuses on (i) the problem of identifying spatial
entities (e.g. continents, countries, states, cities, sets, water bodies, zones of influence, etc) that are
‘strategic’ in the sense that they are the most central or important based on their spatial relationships
to other entities, (ii) defining geometric-based criteria based on mathematical morphological operators
to derive individual zones that may serve as indicators of their strategic importance to other zones that
are part of a collection of zones. and (ii) modelling spatial entities based on boundary, distance and
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contextuality relationships along with other spatial properties that depend upon the properties of size,
shape, adjacency between the sets.
B.S. Daya Sagar and N. Rajesh
Human depth EEG processing for epilepsy and cognition
Under the ISI funded project depth EEG data of 21 epileptic patients and 5 Schizophrenic + 5 normal
controls' scalp EEG data are being analyzed. Seizure offset is being studied in order to understand
why do all seizures terminate on their own. A novel hypothesis that seizure changes extracellular pH
from ~7.35 to ~6.8, which enhances activity of inhibitory neurons and suppresses the activity of
excitatory neurons leading to greater focal ECoG channel synchronization towards the end of a
seizure, rather than in the midway of its progression has been put forward (paper likely to be accepted
in J. Clin. EEG. Neurosci.) The Schizophrenia data are being analyzed for auditory hallucination by the
newly invented video synchronization method (joint work with NIMHANS).
K. Majumdar and Pradeep
Computation in the brain: neuron, synapse, astrocyte interactions in small networks
The recent controversy regarding whether astrocytes modulate synaptic plasticity (Nature, 463: 232 -
236, 2010 and Science, 327: 1250 - 1254, 2010) has been addressed by mathematical modeling and
computer simulation. It has been showed both long and short forms of plasticity are modulated by
astrocytes. The former one was experimentally confirmed by Araque's group in Cajal Institute in
Madrid. A close touch was maintained throughout the duration of the work. Two papers came out in J.
Comp. Neruosci. and J. Biol. Phys.
K.Majumdar and S. Tewari
Physics and Earth Sciences Division
Geological Studies Unit
Tuff beds in the Kurnool sub-basin
Welded as well as unwelded, rhyodacitic tuff beds and their geochemistry from the Proterozoic Owk
Shale, southern India has been reported for the first time. Geochemical discrimination indicated affinity
with Volcanic Arc Granites in spite of supposed intracratonic basinal setting. Contribution of submarine
ash flow has been interpreted from texture and marine sediment association. Chondrite- normalized
REE abundances of the analyzed tuff samples showed abundances broadly comparable to that of the
Chopan Porcellanite from the lower part of the Vindhyan basin and the Singhora tuff from the
Chattisgarh basin. Based on strong enrichment of incompatible elements Cs, Rb, Ba and Th
compared to primordial mantle, a continental crust source for the parent melt has been suggested.
The tuff samples from the Owk Shale have ∑LREE/∑ HREE ratios varying between 14.8 and 22.5,
much higher than post-Archean sediments with an average of 9.7±1.8.
Dilip Saha and V. Tripathy
Sediment transport and bedform development in carbonate sediments
Literature on bedform development in carbonate sediments has been scanned. Shell fragments have
been collected for flume experiments and bedform characteristics have been noted. The preliminary
studies revealed a variety of shape and size of carbonate particles in the bed material. Bed material is
being prepared for flume experiments.
R. Mazumder, B. Purkait and M. Mandi
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Evolution of carbonate platform through time: examples from PG valley, Chattishgarh and
Cuddapah basins
The primary focus of the present project is on comparative studies of late Palaeoproterzoic Pakhal
carbonate platforms of the PG Valley, late Masoproterozoic Chandi platform of the Chattisgarh, and
Paleoproterozoic Vempalle platform of the Cuddapah basin in terms of stromatolite types and
diversities or lack thereof, facies, palaeogeography and tectonic settings of the basins. Field work in
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Chattisgarh and Papaghni basins was initiated, during the 1 year of the project and in several areas
detail facies analysis was done to work out the stratigraphic sequences and sedimentologic analysis of
the carbonate successions. Detailed work on the physical and chemical aspects of carbonate
depositional systems and their potential in predicting climatic changes on regional scale is being
initiated.
Sarbani Patranabis Deb and Dilip Saha
Tectonics of metagranite-metabasalt association in the southern part of the Nellore schist belt
– petrological and geochemical approach
Recent mapping exercise has demonstrated that in addition to the c.1200-1300 Ma old plutons of the
Prakasam alkaline province, the Nellore schist belt (NSB) hosts a number of granitic bodies varying in
size from a few 100m to a few km across. It has been shown that a suite of c.1900 old plagiogranites
are intimately associated with metabasalt and hornblende metagabbros, as in the ocean plate
remnants of Kandra and Gurramkonda in the extreme south of NSB. Such plagiogranites are strongly
deformed during the emplacement of the ophiolites as a thrust imbricate. Feldspar composition
variation from Ab65An35 in leucocratic patches in gabbro to Ab98An1.5 in metre thick granitic veins has
been interpreted as fractionation trends from a mafic melt. New data on the geochemistry of these
plagiogranites and associated metabasalts have been obtained and shown to be comparable to those
of supra-subduction zone setting. These plagiogranites are mineralogically and geochemically distinct
from the c.1589 Ma old Vinukonda metagranite, which has been interpreted as syntectonic with
respect to D2 deformation in the NSB.
Dilip Saha
Sedimentology of the Triassic Red-bed successions of central Indian Gondwana basins
Existing models of fluvial depositional mechanisms suggest that in a fluvial deposit in-channel coarse-
grained units would dominate (in volume and thickness) over the extra-channel fine-grained units. In
favour of this, innumerable examples of ancient deposits could be cited from the fluvial literature. Yet,
some of our earlier works have documented ancient river deposits in which finer-grained lithological
units dominate over coarse-grained ones. The geomorphic and climatic conditions that can sustain this
atypical style of deposition are presently being researched. The sedimentologic and stratigraphic
characters of the late Triassic Maleri Formation were studied to identify and classify the fluvio-
geomorphic elements of the system and to understand their dynamics with time. The paleosols
preserved within this deposit and the geochemical properties of the sediments are studied to constrain
the prevailing paleoclimate and provenance.
P. Ghosh, S.N. Sarkar and S. Dasgupta
Physicochemical Studies on Organized Assemblies (Microemulsions/Reverse Micelles) of

Mixed Surfactants
Temperature-induced percolation behavior in mixed reverse micellar systems comprising anionic

surfactant, sodium bis(2-ethylhexyl) sulfosuccinate (AOT), and nonionic surfactant,
polyoxyethylene(20) sorbitan trioleate (Tween-85) in biocompatible oils of different chemical structures
and physical properties [ethyl oleate (EO), isopropyl myristate (IPM) and isopropyl palmitate (IPP)]
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have been studied at a total surfactant concentration (ST) of 0.25 mol dm . The threshold percolation
temperature (Tp) of the mixed reverse micellar systems has been found to be dependent on water
content (ω), content of nonionic (XTween-85), total surfactant concentration (ST), oil and concentration of
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added electrolyte (NaCl). The scaling laws for the temperature-induced percolation have been found to
be obeyed but the equation parameters (s, t, k and µ) in pre and post-percolation regions differ in
magnitude from what theory predicts. The activation energy, Ep has been estimated from Arrhenius
plots for the percolation process of AOT-Tween-85 mixed reverse micellar systems. The standard free
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energy change (ΔG cl), enthalpy change (ΔH cl) and entropy change (ΔS cl) of cluster formation have
been evaluated at different physicochemical environments to underline the percolation process in the
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light of thermodynamics of droplet clustering. The estimated values of ΔG cl for different compositions
have been found to be negative, which indicates spontaneous formation of clusters for these systems.
The values of ΔH0cl and ΔS0cl have been found to be positive accounting for a strong heat-absorbing
step in the percolation process. The threshold percolation temperature, Tp has been determined for
systems as referred above, in presence of additives of different molecular structures, physical
parameters and/or interfacial properties. For this purpose acetyl modified amino acids (MAA) viz. N-
acetyl-l-glycine (NAG), N-acetyl-l-leucine (NAL), N-acetyl-l-glutamic acid (NAGA) and N-acetyl-l-
cysteine (NAC) have been exploited to investigate the effect on the percolation threshold in these
mixed surfactant reverse micellar systems. All the additives have shown resisting effect on the
percolation threshold value. The effect of MAA on the activation energy (Ep) of these reverse micellar
systems have also been accounted. The concentration of additives influences the parameters both Tp
and Ep for all investigated systems. A mathematical model has been proposed for the estimation of
various structural parameters. The size of the droplets increases with increase in ω and XTween-85,
whereas droplet size decreases with increase in ST. Droplet dimensions have also been measured by
dynamic light scattering studies (DLS). An attempt has been made to underline the microstructures of
these systems in the light of percolation of conductance vis-à-vis thermodynamics of droplet clustering
and structural parameters (evaluated using mathematical models and experimentally determined from
DLS measurements).
B.K. Paul
Morphology, function and ecology of the Mesozoic non-marine tetrapods of the Gondwana
basins of peninsular India
The Triassic vertebrate fossil yielding areas of the Gondwana formations of Peninsular India have
been mapped in detail. The Nambal- Nalapur- Achlapur-Bhimni- Rampur track ( 19 19’05”N to 19 04
46N and 79 26’45”E to 79 41’60”E) of the Pranhita Godavari valley has been already mapped in detail
by the GSU workers and in view of that, similar maps in the Matkuli-Chawalpani-Jhirpa-Paraspani
track (22ο55’ 20”N to 22ο37’57”N and 78ο22’24”E to 78ο43’24”E) of the Denwa Formation of the
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Satpura basin has been prepared. The detailed map of the Banspital-Deoli (23 40’27”N to 23 36’50”N
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to 86 50’20”E to 86 56’52”E) area of the Panchet formation has also been prepared. The Maps contain
major formational boundaries, sandstone-mudstone and calcirudite bodies, important sections, fossil
occurrences, faunal boundary, structural and paleocurrent data among others. Those maps will be
useful for palaeoecological studies. Some faunal elements of the Prahnita-Godavari valley have been
compared to the fauna from coeval beds of Brazil. Quantitative methods developed in GSU have been
applied to establish the taxonomic status, growth and function related issues of the fossil fauna.
D.P. Sengupta and S. Bandyopadhyay
A systematic study of marine gastropod assemblages from the Jurassic rocks of Kutch,
western India with special emphasis on faunal endemism
In all 148 drilled bivalve specimens of a single species from the Upper Jurassic horizon in western
India have been documented. This number is maximum for any taxon ever recorded since
Precambrian to Cretaceous. Drill holes shapes are indicative of gastropod predation. This largely
unexplored record of bivalve drill holes from the Middle Mesozoic contradicts the general trend of
“Mesozoic quiescence” as claimed by most researchers. Documentation of various biotic traces
including predatory drillholes from a non-molluscan group, foraminifera of Eocene time has also been
done. It has been suggested that the drilling predator is probably juvenile naticid gastropods.
S.S. Das
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Main Central Thrust architecture and fault zone kinematics with reference to Lumla “window”
in northwest Arunachal Pradesh and other comparable outcrops
A distinct domal architecture for Main Central thrust (MCT) zone around Lumla was mapped. The first
appearance of recognizable migmatites with well differentiated leucosomes and darker residual bands,
derived from pelitic protoliths and intense shear related fabric has been set as field criteria for
recognition of MCT. Additional thrusts below MCT representing possible splays were mapped;
emplacement of syntectonic granitic sheets along the splays suggested thrust zones to be preferred
pathways for redistribution of partial melts. Outcrop scale kinematic indicators including shear bands,
asymmetric boudins, book shelf structures clearly showed a top-to-south thrust displacement both in
the northerly dipping northern flank of the Lumla domal structures and southerly dipping southern
flank. An inclined transpressive deformation has been interpreted from wide variation in the hinge line
orientations and vergence of tight folds along the western flank around the confluence of Niyamjung
Chu and Tawang Chu.
Dilip Saha and Saheli Sanyal
Sedimentation history of Palaeoproterozoic Dhalbhum and Dalma Formations, eastern India in

the Kokpara-Tata section and its implications
The depositional mechanism of Dalma volcanism and volcaniclastic sedimentation has been worked
out. The nature of stratigraphic contact between the Chaibasa and overlying Dhalbhum Formations
and the sedimentary environmental changes has been documented.
R. Mazumder and S. De
Ganga River Basin Management Plan
Geomorphology of the Quaternary sediments deformed by blind thrusts was examined around Matiali
Chalsa area of Jalpaiguri District in the proximal part of the modern Himalayan foreland. The analysis
showed that building of the coarse grained fan and two major river terraces were related to climatic
pulses while the deformation of the Quaternary sediments revealed progradation of the thrust front into
the unconsolidated sediments. In the project on Siwalik the facies and paelocurrent measurement
revealed presence of wave agitated environment. Siwaliks all over the Himalaya has been inferred as
fluvial deposits and this is the first time such features are being reported from Eastern Himalaya
implying hitherto unrecognised paleogeographic niche. In a study on the Ganga River and its
tributaries, the geomorphic mapping of the stretch from Muger to Farakka and the major tributaries like
Kosi and Mahananda, and Hugli has been completed. This is the first time that a group of scientists
has documented in details all the active geomorphic features of Ganga right from Gomukh to Farakka.
T. Chakraborty, P. Ghosh and S.N. Sarkar
Nellore schist belt and Proterozoic tectonics of the southeast margin of India
Truncated ocean plate stratigraphy in the Kandra domain and detailed structural architecture and of
Nellore scist belt (NSB) has been documented leading to confirmation of Paleoproterozoic supra-
subduction zone setting for part of the NSB. The nature of boundary thrusts in (a) Rapur area, (b)
Podile-Ongole sector of the Nellore schist belt has been constrained from outcrop scale structures and
microstructures in the high-strain zones bordering the Nallmalai fold belt (a) and the Eastern Ghats
belt (b). A major shear zone was recognized west of Podile where km-scale lenses of granite gneiss
with enclaves of amphibolite show multiple sets of shear with a strong strike slip component. The
relative age of these shear sets has been constrained from cross cutting mafic dykes. The overall
steep flattening fabric in the gneiss, together with highly flattened enclaves and dominant sinistral
shear bands, are consistent with deformation within an overall steep, sinistral transpressive zone with
E-W shortening across the belt.
Dilip Saha, Parijat Nandi and Arnab Sain
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The thermal evolution of Peninsular India: past behaviour and future potential
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The principal research effort for 3 Year (2011-2012) was to study the nature of the siliciclastic and
carbonate sediments, facies architecture in multiple selected sections to ascertain physical
environments of deposition and palaeography in the Cudapah basin. Along some selected sections
field based heat-production measurements using a portable gamma-ray spectrometer were taken up.
Samples were collected to study the thermal conductivity measurements at NGRI Hyderabad
laboratory. Systematic sampling for detrital zircon and monazite analysis of sandstones and available
volcanic rocks from all the formations of Cuddapah Basin was completed.
Dilip Saha and Sarbani Patranabis-Deb
SHRIMP U-Pb age data from metamorphic zircon and monazite in the Eastern Ghats Province,
combined with results of phase equilibria modelling of residual granulites, migmatites and enderbites
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indicated peak UHT metamorphism (>950 C, >8 kbar) occurred between 1040 and 980 Ma,
interpreted to a single tectonometamorphic event. Clockwise P-T-t path has been suggested from age
data with extant and revised quantitative phase equilibria modelling. Fieldwork and some petrographic
study in the Ongole domain charnockitic gneisses provided important constraints on deep-crustal
anatexis of pre-existing mafic rocks generating the charnockitic gneisses.
Samarendra Bhattacharya
Physics and Applied Mathematics Unit
Physics
Astro Optics
Analyses of PAHs extinction efficiencies to prepare an analytic framework for study of interstellar
extinction data corresponding to galaxies like the Milky Way, SMC, LMC was carried out. This work is
covered under an ISRO project.
Interstellar dust modeling based on the corresponding extinction spectra data is a very active area of
research in observational astronomy. For galaxies like LMC, SMC, MW, the corresponding average
interstellar extinction spectra data is understood and analyzed basing on silicate-graphite two-
component MRN model extended by another component known as PAHs. Analytic formulae for direct
evaluation of the extinction for silicate and graphite (astronomical) had been obtained earlier. During
2011-2012, the analytic formulas for PAHs extinction were obtained. With the aid of this analytic
formulation for determining extinction for all these three interstellar dust components, the modeling is
expected to be easier, direct and expedient in respect of calculations and the like.
A.K. Roy
Bayesian Approach to Data Analysis in Astronomy
New Bayesian methodology as developed by Bhattacharya et al in BIRU; ISI has been applied to a
large data set from SDSS quasar catalogue to study the recent unsolved cosmological issues. The
cluster analysis within this approach gives rise to new possibility to understand the clustering of
Quasars at high redshift.This work is being done in collaboration with Dr.Sourabh Bhattacharya and
Mr.Sabyasachi Mukhopadhaya of BIRU, ISI.
S. Roy, S. Bhattacharya (BIRU) and S. Mukhopadhaya (BIRU)
Classical Optics (Scattering)
Analytic modeling of small particle size-distributional PHASE function has been done to extend our
earlier single particle formula. The results are expected to be of practical use in the study of scattering
of light from soft, tenuous media collaborator. The work is under revision process.
A.K. Roy
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Dark Energy and Present Universe
The generalized particle dynamics in an asymptotically anti de Sitter background which results in a
new model that accounts for the late acceleration of the universe was considered. An effective dark
energy equation of state, exhibiting a phantom like behavior, was generated. Results were
corroborated with the present day observed cosmological parameters.
Subir Ghosh and Supratik Pal
High Energy Physics
Some crucial aspects of LHC and RHIC physics have been successfully dwelt upon with the help of
some non-‘standard’ and alternative approaches. The remarkably good agreements between the
measured data and the obtained results lead the way to think of some new avenues in the domain of
Particle Physics. The issues are, some aspects of LHC physics, pT – spectra for strong particle
production in high-energy nuclear collisions and the problems of J/ψ particle production. The studies
also include the exhaustive analysis of the properties of rapidity and pseudorapidity spectra of the
various secondaries produced in high-energy nuclear interactions.
S. Bhattacharyya
Physics of Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation
Quasi-exponential models of inflation, developed using a phenomenological Hubble parameter and

Hamiltonian-Jacobi formalism, were confronted with WMAP seven years data set with good
agreement. The ratio of tensor to scalar amplitudes is also obtained.
Supratik Pal and Banasri Basu
Plasma Physics
Ion acoustic solitary waves and double layers in quantum plasma with non-isothermal electrons have
been studied in Quantum Plasma in both planar and non-planar geometry. Quasi-periodic behavior in
Quantum plasma using the methodology of Dynamical System has been studied in some detail. This
is the first kind of work in Quantum Plasma.
R. Roychoudhury
Non Classical States in Interacting Fock Space and Boson Fock Space and Quantum Control
Theory
Classical states of the electromagnetic field are states whose P representations are non-negative
definite. Such states can be described in terms of classical stochastic fields. Nonclassical states have
P representations that do not satisfy this condition. They are intrinsically quantum-mechanical fields.
Some new models were studied to generate nonclassical state which has P-representations that do
not satisfy the requirement of non-negative definitness valid for classical states. The studies
developed earlier in interacting Fock space were continued. It was found that a two-level atom-
interacting field system acquires a space parameter dependent Berry phase which can be applied to
implement the fault-tolerant quantum gate. An effort is being made to generate W state with the help of
designing QED baths connected in parallel with the help of state space representation in stochastic
field of the optical QED by developing quantum feedback QED control system. A study pertaining to
the narrowing mechanism (Dicke narrowing) vis-à-vis Doppler effort is also intended to be undertaken.
P. K. Das
Quantum Information Theory
Simulation of quantum correlation by different kind of resources like classical communication or non-
local box is an important area of research. A new simulation protocol for singlet has been provided
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which is a mixture of cbit and non-local box. In this context, a complementary relation between local
randomness and communication has been found. An important area of quantum information is to point
out the power of local cooperation and classical communication (LOCC) in quantum information
processing. Sets of d and less than d maximally entangled states in d cross d (d = 4, 5, 6) have been
found which cannot be discriminated by one-way LOCC. Search for two ways LOCC is in progress. It
has also been found that four Bell states cannot even be probabilistically cloned with supply of one bit
of entanglement. The case of three Bell states is a difficult one and attempt has been made to solve it
first with stronger operation like PPT (positive partial transpose) preserving operation.
Recent investigations have revealed that there exist quantum correlations other than entanglement.
One such is the quantum discord, which basically quantifies the total non-classical correlations in a
quantum state. The geometric measure of entanglement and quantum discord have been calculated
analytically for arbitrary superposition of two N-qubit GHZ state. Quantum discord for the W state was
also conjectured.
G. Kar and P. Parashar
Quantum Mechanics
Information theoretic measures of uncertainty for a class of exceptional orthogonal polynomials have
been studied using supersymmetry and non-hermiticity for Black Scholes model of option pricing.
Some of two-step shape invariant potentials, constructed by employing the general form of type A 2-
fold supersymmetry, are conducting two-step invariant and this are conditionally solvable. The effects
of generalized uncertainty principle in the context of holographic gravity were studied and construction
of generalized coherent states was carried out. Some of the two-step shape invariant potentials,
constructed by employing the general form of type A2-fold supersymmetry are conditionally two-step
invariant and thus are conditionally solvable. The non-Hermitian generalized Swanson Hamiltonian
has been considered from the point of view of generalized quantum rule. The equivalent Hermitian
counterpart of this Hamiltonian was shown to be reducible to the conformal Hamiltonian. It has been
found that this leads to the breakdown of isospectrality in some cases.
P. Roy, B. Roy and S. Ghosh
Quantum Tunneling for Dissipative System
The Schroedinger-Langevin equation was constructed using the stochastic quantization procedure
proposed by Nelson. The stability of the stationary solutions of this equation has been studied. The
tunneling time and energy loss in a dissipative medium was estimated. The tunneling time and the
status of superluminal transmission have been studied in case of dissipative system. This has been
analyzed also in the context of weak measurement theory by Aharanov et al.
S. Roy and S.Bhattacharya
Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics
The zero temperature phase transition, known as ‘Quantum phase transition’ (QPT) has attracted a lot
of attention recently. The dynamics of QPT induced by a quench in different one-dimensional spin
systems has been studied by following the dynamical mechanism of Kibble and Zurek. In our
formulation, the geometric phase plays an important role. In the critical region, the magnetic field
dependence on the entanglement properties of these systems has also been explored.
B. Basu and P. Bandyopadhyay
Field Theory of the Early Universe
New models of inflation in the framework of background super gravity and MSSM were proposed.
Using the inflation potential the observable parameters were estimated and found to fit well with the
recent observational data by comparing with WMAP7 using CAMB. Further, the phenomenological
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implications of these models were studied extensively via thermal history of the universe and
leptogenesis pertaining to the particle physics phenomenology of the early universe.
Supratik Pal
Fluid Mechanics & Applied Mathematics
Integral Equations
Numerical solutions of singular integral equations were obtained using Bernstein polynomials,
wavelets evaluation of singular integrals and Daubechies scale function. Solutions of second kind
integral equations with Cauchy type kernels were found using Daubechies scale function. Solution of
Fredholm and Voltera integral equations using quadratic Legendre multi-wavelets were investigated.
B. N. Mandal
Water Waves
Transmission of water waves through apertures in a pair of thin vertical barriers and water wave
scattering by two vertical plates were studied. Cauchy-Poisson problem in sloping beach, in a two-
layer fluid with an inertial surface and in an ocean with undulating bottom topography were considered.
B.N. Mandal
Interdisciplinary Research
Fluvial Mechanics Laboratory (FML)
The obstacle on a sand bed in the way of a unidirectional flow, developed a creascentic scour on the
bed. The scour was caused by a vortex generated on the upstream side of the obstacle due to
boundary layer separation. Sand grains were deposited on the downstream side of the obstacle as
wakes. These obstacle marks named as ‘current-crescents’ preserved in geological record are
traditionally used as indicators of palaeo-current direction. The main interest was to determine the
relationship between the flow velocities and scour-width irrespective of obstacle diameter and sand
grain size. This study was aimed at investigating the turbulence characteristics in a scour formed near
a fixed cylinder placed transverse to the flow. A cumulant-discard method to Gram-Charier probability
distribution of two variables u and w was applied to describe the statistical properties of the covariance
term. Some comprehensive knowledge of these processes was achieved.
B.S. Mazumder
Information Processing in the Brain
The information processing and the issue of cognition is one of the challenging issues in brain
research. A geometric structure was proposed for the neuronal architecture of Central Nervous System
(CNS) so as to understand the use of Fisher information in this context. The noise plays a significant
role in understanding brain function. The role of noise will be studied specifically in the context of brain
function.
S. Roy, Rodolfo Llinas and Daniel Bennequin
Systems and Control Theory
Using a specific descriptor system form, the decoupling problem of the system by state feedback has
been studied. The system was first transformed in controller form and the necessary and sufficient
conditions for the system to be integrator decoupled were obtained. These conditions are necessary
as well as sufficient for the closed-loop system poles to be assigned while decoupling. Finally, the
conditions for the decoupled system to be internally stable were obtained.The behavior of kinetic
energy spectrum in a turbulent flow has also been studied.
S.Gangopadhyay
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Biological Sciences Division
Agricultural and Ecological Research Unit
Agriculture
Development of information on Agricultural and Horticultural production using RS and GIS
technology in some district of West Bengal
Marketing is the major problem in Agriculture. Attempt has been made to identify the problem and
prospect of different Hats and Markets (rural) using survey methodology. Four districts namely
Coochbehar, Murshidabad, Purulia and 24 Parganas of West Bengal have been selected for the study.
Here we are trying to integrate the spatial data (road network, market map, accessibility etc) with the
primary survey data related to local huts and markets. At the same time the opportunities of growing
different crops are also studied on those districts.
In an interdisciplinary study, biophysical and socio-economic parameters are considered to formulate a

suitable rice management strategy at micro-level. The potential of climate as an important resource in
agricultural has not been used or even realized by the scientific community even though it has
sometimes been observed that farmers have their own perceptions. As a result, several crops are
grown traditionally without considering the suitability of the climate leading to poor yield and thus much
of the production potential of this vast resource is left unutilized. Here we will try to develop suitable
rice options like varieties, sowing windows, input level etc. at micro level (for upland, medium land and
lowland) on the basis of our model. Based on initial rainfall or its weighted counterpart along with
other significant covariates we have to identify the toposequence specific crop varieties so that the
yield is maximized. Note that proper attention has to be given on farmers’ perception as categorical
response at the time of model construction.
P. Banik, P. Ghosal, A. Sarkar and M. Das
Integrated Nutrient Management for Sisal cultivation in laterite soil of Girdih, a Sub-Tropical
Plateau Region of India
Sisal fibers are derived from the leaves of the perennial hardy plant Agave sisalana Perrine, belonging
to the family Agavaceae, mainly grown in arid and semi-arid regions of Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Orissa,
Karnataka and Maharashtra. From each leaf 4.5 – 6 % of hard fibre (70-130 cm long) is extracted by
machine decortications in which the leaf is crushed between the rollers and then mechanically
scraped. The strong hard fibre is used for making natural ropes, cordage, twines, coarse fabrics, rugs,
carpets, handicrafts, mats, fishing nets, etc. It provides working opportunities of local people in off-
season of remote areas. Promising result has been obtained in intercropping with elephant foot yam,
cow pea, Pea and Niger. Growth data show good response with application of NPK and FYM with
occasional irrigation. The plantation is now ready for harvesting of the leaf fibres with decorticator
machines.
M. Ghose, B. Sarkar and R. Dasgupta (SMU)
A study on yield performance for different annual crops for the production of bio-fuel
Sweet sorghum is a multipurpose crop which can produce grain from its ear head and sugary juice
from its stem. The juice can be fermented to produce ethanol for energy purposes and the commercial
cultivation of this crop as a raw source of bio-ethanol has already been initiated in some states in our
country. In this pilot project, Sweet Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor L.) varieties namely Madhura,
ICSU93046, ICSU25280 and ICSU25274 (obtained from ICRISAT, Patancheru, Andhra Pradesh) were
sown on 26/07/2011 at Basirhat Farm and on 15/5/11, 26/5/11 and 5/8/11 in our Institute experimental
farm located at ‘Gupta Niwas’. Plot size = 12 sqm (4x3m), replication = 3, total plots = 36. Design =
Randomised Block Design.
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Data was collected at 45 days interval up to 135 days. Treatment combinations were Nitrogen (0, 40,
80 and 120 Kg/ha), Phosphorus (60 Kg/ha for all combination) and Potassium (30, 60 and 90 Kg/ha).
Different yield data such as plant height, number of leaves per plant, grain yield, sugar yield, green
biomass yield were collected. Out of four varieties tested, performance of Madhura and ICSU 25280
were significantly comparable with that of Dry land cereals Research Programme, ICRISAT,
Patancheru, For both the varieties the average plant height varied between 145.25 and 161.63 cm at
135 Days, average number of leaves per plant were between 6.73 and 7.23 at 45 days, green
biomass yield (t/ha) varied between 55.94 and 72.47 t/ha, grain yield (kg/ha) varied between 1126.0
and 1502.24 Kg/ha, sugar concentration (%) varied between 3.82 and 4.94 % and sugar yield (t/ha)
was observed between 2.16 and 3.52 t/ha.
S. Barik, S. Chanda, D. Roy (CSSC) and G.M. Saha (BIRU)
Development of new Agrochemicals from plant allelochemicals and their possible implication
in Agricultural practices
Natural agrochemicals play a significant role in Agricultural systems that seek to reduce the input of
synthetic chemicals and conserve natural fauna. Allelopathic interactions in certain tropical plants
namely Tamarindus indica, Tectona grandis, Leonurus sibiricus, Chrozophora rottleri, Artocarpus
lakoocha, Cleome viscosa, Piper chaba etc. have been studied. Isolation and identification of some of
the allelochemicals involved in this process and their mode of action have been done. Lactam
nonanoic acid [2-amino-9-(4-oxoazetidin-2-yl)-nonanoic acid] has been isolated from the root exudates
of Cleome viscosa, which is responsible for both allelopathic and medicinal properties of that plant.
Strong biopesticidal compounds have been extracted and identified from Tamarindus indica and
Tectona grandis. A board spectrum bacteriocide and squalene have been recovered from Artocarpus
lakoocha. These results indicate the possibility of using bioactive allelochemicals extracted from plants
as biofertilizers and biopesticides which are eco-friendly and may replace synthetic agrochemicals that
often lead to environmental hazards.
S. Mandal Biswas and N. Chakrabarty
Ecology
Mycorrhizal status of Mangroves of the Sundarbans
Mutualistic associations between soil fungi and roots of vascular plants are very diverse. Mycorrhizal
infection may be ecologically relevant for colonization and development of mangroves. Arbuscular
mycorrhizae (AM) are known to act as potent soil binders, help nutrient cycling and increase soil
fertility. Root and rhizospheric soil samples of 14 mangroves and two mangrove associates from 27
sites of six different areas of the Sundarbans have been studied. The arbuscule abundances in most
of the mangroves have indicated a functional symbiosis between AMF and the plants. High spore
density and mycorrhizal percentages have been found in Heritiera fomes and quite low in Avicennia
marina and Porteresia coarctata. The highest concentration of available P have been found in the soils
of diurnally inundated sites and that of available N in summer springtide inundated sites. Forty three
AMF species occurred in the sites inundated by usual springtide. The highest frequency of spores has
been found in Glomus mosseae and second highest in Gl. etunicatum. The mycorrhizal frequency,
intensity and arbuscule abundance in the roots decreased with increase in available soil phosphorus.
M. Ghose and T. Kumar
Antioxidant scavenging and corresponding gene regulation in some mangroves of Sundarbans
Efficient salt tolerance mechanisms can be attributed to generation of relatively elevated amount of
both enzymatic and non-enzymatic antioxidants like PRX, SOD, CAT and polyphenols, flavonoids etc.
In view of this, estimation of above antioxidant agents from some selected mangroves (of which, H.
fomes and X. granatum are considered as degraded species from Indian Sundarbans) along the
elevated soil salinity level from five different geographical locations were carried out. Plant materials
were collected from different islands of Indian Sundarbans and the islands were selected on the basis
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of different soil salinity levels. RAPD analysis also carried out in order to understand their extent of
genetic polymorphism. Efficient ROS scavenging ability were also studied by ABTS and DPPH
methods. In the previous project, polymorphic characteristics of two antioxidant (PRX and SOD) and
two hydrolyzing (ACP and EST) enzymes in relation to substrate salinity were established. Present
work will point out towards the up regulation of the corresponding gene in relation to salinity gradient.
Darjeeling tea plantations are presently much affected with the adverse effects of climatic change. In
an extra mural funded project (funded by Tea Board, India) on Darjeeling tea, work has been
undertaken to work out a selection procedure with biochemical markers for improved genotypes
towards stress tolerance.
S. Das and N. Dasgupta
Detection, mapping and phenoplasticity of Alternanthera philoxeroides: an invasive weed
Alternanthera philoxeroides, a wetland plant, with a very high rate of vegetative growth is regarded as
one of the worst weeds of the world due to its invasiveness, potential for spead, economic and
environmental impacts. The plant, now being reported from all corners of India, is widely prevelant in
West Bengal. In the absence of any monitoring or growth studies on this specific plant in the Indian
context, this research project aims to monitor the status of its infestation in Kolkata and attempts to
assess the survivabiliity and ramet generation potential of small fragments of this plant.
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Extensive field surveys conducted in Greater Kolkata (spread over 1,886.67 km ) detected moderate
presence of Alternanthera philoxeroides and showed its luxurient presence in 60% of the areas
surveyed. Out of 89 sites surveyed so far the presence of this plant in aquatic habitats was recorded in
28 sites while it was 25 sites under terrestrial conditions thereby showing its ability to grow in urban
areas also. The high proliferation success rate of A. philoxeroides is due to its ablility to propagate
vegetatively using clonal growth. Experiments conducted to assess the survivality and ‘ramet’
generation potential of small (1, 2 and 3-noded) rooted versus non-rooted fragments of Alternanthera
philoxeroides showed that new plants started regenerating from these nodes within a week of setting
up the experiment and the survivality of the fragments was highest in the 3- noded rooted fragments
probably because of greater carbohydrate storage reserves with larger length of the fragment.
A. Dewanji, S.Bhattacharya, P. Ghosal, C. Medda, A. Chatterjee,
A. Banerjee and A.Dewanji (ASU)
Ethno-Medicine
Studies on in vitro antimicrobial potential of Eugenia jambolana seed extracts against

multidrug resistant clinical bacteria with special reference to methicillin-resistant
Staphylococcus aureus
Eugenia jambolana (Syn. Syzygium cumini; Family: Myrtaceae) is a medicinal plant traditionally used
for the treatment of different types of diseases and disorders since antiquity. In vitro antibacterial
potential of extracts of Eugenia jambolana seeds against multidrug-resistant human bacterial
pathogens was evaluated by standard growth inhibitory assay methods. The plant extracts
demonstrated varying degrees of strain specific antibacterial activities against all the test isolates.
Phytochemical analysis and TLC-bioautography revealed that phenolics were the major active
phytoconstituents. The most active plant extract demonstrated no haemolytic activity on human
erythrocytes at recommended and higher doses. These promising findings provide justification for the
use of Eugenia jambolana in traditional medicine to treat various infections and may contribute to the
development of novel antimicrobial agents for the treatment of infections caused by these drug-
resistant bacterial pathogens.
R.R. Chattopadhyay, S.K. Bhattacharyya and A. Bag
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An investigation on antimicrobial potential of Chebulic myrobalan (fruit of Terminalia chebula

Retz.) against methiciilin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus
Terminalia chebula is a medicinal plant, called the ‘King of Medicine’ in Tibet and is always listed at the
top of the list of Ayurvedic Materia Medica due to its extraordinary power of healing. Different parts of
this plant have been reported by several researchers to have medicinal properties. Possible
antibacterial potential of Terminalia chebula fruit extracts against methicillin resistant Staphylococcus
aureus have been studied in our laboratory. It was interesting to observe that Terminalia chebula fruit
extracts exhibited strong antibacterial activity against the test isolates. Hot aqueous extract was found
to be most effective followed by ethanol and cold aqueous extracts. The rate and extent of bacterial
killing were found to be both dose and time dependent. Furthermore, combination effects of Terminalia
chebula fruit extracts with three first line antibiotics of different groups against methicillin-resistant
Staphylococcus aureus revealed that gentamicin and amoxicillin exhibited synergistic activity with
plant extract whereas ciprofloxacin showed additive effect. These promising findings reinforce the
importance of ethnomedical approach as a potential source of bioactive compounds.
R.R. Chattopadhyay, S.K. Bhattacharyya and A. Bag
Nano-biotechnology
A novel paradigm for Basic and Applied science
Nanobiotechnology has started making huge contribution in various areas of basic and applied
science. ISI researchers received six major grants (four from the Department of Biotechnology and two
from the Indian Council of Agricultural Research) for developing novel tools for Agricultural, veterinary
and medical research. Nanosilica based nanocide developed by ISI researchers have been
commercialized by the Business Industry Partnership Program (BIPP) of Department of Biotechnology
(DBT), GoI. This technology is the first agro-nano-technology based product in the country which has
entered into the process of commercialization. Nano-sulfur based fungicides developed by ISI
researchers have been patented with DBT and ICAR. Researchers have demonstrated that
Nanosulfur also works as highly effective anti-bacterial agent against a number of multidrug-resistant
Gram-negative bacilli (GNB) harbouring the New Delhi metallo--lactamase 1 enzyme (NDM-1). This
is the first report in the world on the use of novel nanoparticles as antibiotics against NDM-1 positive
bacteria which usually do not get killed by third generation antibiotics. The highly virulent
carbapenemase New Delhi metallo--lactamase 1 (NDM-1) bacteria were reported from India,
Pakistan and the UK in 2008 and within a short span of time (2008-2011) human infections with
bacteria carrying the NDM-1 enzyme has been reported from at least 20 countries. This paper has
been published in a highly reputed international journal and has been cited by many other research
groups worldwide. Researchers from ISI has developed novel nano-bioimaging agents involving
carbon nanoparticles as well as chemically grafted CNPs coated on ZnO nanorods. This paper has
been cited by Nature India magazine as one of the most important papers published from India in 2011
in the area of Nanoscience. Mechanism of action studies of the nanoparticles developed by ISI
researchers has revealed novel targets for drug development in future. AERU researchers in
collaboration with ECSU and ASU have developed novel mathematical formulations for generating
olfactory receptor family computationally. The algorithms and software have been now published in the
ISI website so that other researchers can utilize this software and results have been published in
international journals. ISI researchers in collaboration with ECSU researchers have also developed
novel software for measuring the exact sizes of the nanoparticles from the TEM images. Currently the
software is going to developmental trials for different kinds of nanoparticles like solid, encapsulated
and core-shell nanoparticles. ISI researchers along with M. Stat. students have utilized in house
developed statistical tools for studying gene expression data obtained from nano-biotechnological
experiments done in ISI.
A. Goswami, N. Debnath, S. Mitra, S. Pradhan,
S. Das, S. Roy Chowdhury and P. Patra
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Mathematical/Statistical Modelling
Eco-epidemiological modeling on disease dynamics on both prey and predator population
Disease is treated as one of the basic reasons of species extinction and if it is coupled with Allee effect
(density mediated drop in per capita growth at low density), the interplay between them has important
biological relevance. In a prey-predator system, epidemic transmission can strongly affect the prey
dynamics; therefore, prey may suffer from positive density-dependence. Including Allee effects there
are number of factors that may affect the predator-prey dynamics, such as functional response and
mutual interference functional response and characterize the interaction between biology of prey and
predator. A systematic study on the stability of eco-epidemiological systems with different functional
responses has been done by Bairagi et al. 2007. In this study, we consider that, susceptible population
is subject to strong Allee effect. We perform a systematic study on the stability of eco-epidemiological
system to observe possible interplay between Allee effect and different functional responses. Our
study reveals that: 1) Allee effect decreases the stability of disease-free and predator-free equilibrium
by contracting the range of parameter values for which the system was stable in absence of Allee
effect. This behaviour is observed in all three functional responses; 2) the trivial equilibrium is locally
asymptotically stable due to the presence of Allee threshold, which is not observed in the system
without Allee effect. In absence of Allee effect, the trivial equilibrium is always unstable; 3) in presence
of Allee effect the number of interior equilibria increases, however, the nature of stability remains same
as the system without it. In both the cases, the interior equilibria are always unstable for all parameter
values; 4) the disease free equilibrium for the system without Allee effect was observed to be stable
and is not affected by rate of infection. At both high and low infection rate the equilibrium is stable.
This behaviour does not change if the system if coupled with Allee effect in case of low infection rate,
but becomes unstable at high rate of infection, that leads to the extinction of all three populations.
This mathematical study may be considered as a primary initiative to understand the effects of Allee
effect in eco-epidemiological issues, that is just recently been proliferating into this domain. Future
endeavour may be to consider modelling based on more empirical and biologically reasonable
assumptions and could provide potential deployment of Allee concept in eco-epidemiological sector.
S.K. Sasmal, A.R. Bhowmick, S. Bhattacharya, J. Chattopadhyay.
Cooperative Recovery Mechanism: A Safeguard for Minimizing Extinction Risk
Identifying the extinction pattern of species from their demographic history has great impact on the
preservation and management of biological populations. In this research project, using population time
series data from Global Population Dynamics Database (GPDD) we demonstrate that, populations
having non-monotonic relationship between per capita growth rate and population size may suffer from
extinction threats at low density. We introduce a cooperation parameter γ in the generalized theta-
logistic structure to model this non-monotonic behaviour. The stability analysis of the model suggests
that the model can provide a potential safeguard for extinction risk and can play a significant role in
conservation. To explore this phenomenon further, the GPD database is investigated and 22 different
time series data are identified, where, per capita growth rate is small at low densities. This
phenomenological approach for modelling relationship between per capita growth rate and size
highlights the interplay of two opposing forces, cooperation with negative density dependence
(competition) and natural propensity for growth. Such model based empirical studies may help to
identify the presence of the recovery mechanism (cooperation) from the growth profile of the species.
This also allows us to quantitatively explain the extinction risk and analyze management options in
conservation. Our analysis reveals that a population with estimated cooperation parameter greater
than an appropriate critical threshold may suffer from severe demographic threats. Bifurcation
diagrams help us to identify populations where the estimated γ is in the chaotic region and the
population suffers from severe extinction risk. These findings have fundamental implications in
extinction dynamics of species showing non-monotonic convex growth profile.
S. Bhattacharya, A.R. Bhowmick, J. Chattopadhyay
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Biological Anthropology Unit
Diet, Activity and Aging: A prospective study among the elderly of Kolkata
The project evaluates age-related variation of selected observed and perceived measures of physical
and mental health among the elderly of both sexes inhabiting the city of salt lake, Kolkata. Analyses of
data revealed that cardiovascular risk factors, viz. hypertension, hyperlipidemia and hyperglycemia
pose considerable problems. It is observed that cardiovascular, metabolic, musculo-skeletal,
ophthalmic and urological illnesses such are conspicuously present. Furthermore, mental illnesses
such as depression, anxiety, loneliness and perceived stress are also moderately present. Age-
related decline in cognitive function, however, is not found to be marked in the study community
B. Mukhopadhyay
Geneetic Epidemiology of malaria in Northeastern regional populations
Northeastern populations show variation in the prevalence of malaria in different parts. Some regional
populations also show more frequent recurrence whereas some others show resistance to malarial
infection. In view of the wide genetic diversity among these populations (e.g., HbE frequency varies
from 5% to high of 50-60% in some of these populations), the variable prevalence of the disease could
be due to some of the candidate genes, e.g., Hb, PKLR, TNF etc. that show variable expression
among these populations. These are being investigated in northeastern populations.
T.S. Vasulu
Bio-informatics: MicroRNA
Patterns and distribution of miRNA in human genome. Since the time the role of miRNA in gene
expression and its implications in some of the diseases, there has been interest to understand the
nature and distribution and pattern of these miRNAs. Investigations on the location, length, its relation
to the target genes, types or classification based on their structure and function indicates that the
location of the miRNA is appear to be not related its length or sequence similarity
T.S. Vasulu
Weight related behaviours among urban adolescent girls: an exploratory study
It is not known how common eating disorders are in Indian subcontinent This may induce a change in
the dietary habits which may affect their health negatively. The present study evaluates the prevalence
of weight concern and subsequent eating behaviours. Data on perception of body image, eating
attitude test (using EAT questionnaire), mental health measures like Beck’s depression scale,
Rosenberg self-esteem scale and so on were collected from adolescent girls aged 15-19 years in
Kolkata and Howrah city. Measurements showed more than 46% girls are overweight, 36.3% were
normal weight while only 16,9% were underweight as per BMI cut off points. More than 30% scored
high on eating attitude scale indicating prevalence of eating disorder among them. Level of depression
as assessed using BDI scale revealed 33% girls were having severe depression. It is also evident that
those who scored high on eating attitude test were shown higher depression levels and this is very
conspicuous among age group of 16-17 years.
S. Mukhopadhyay
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Human Genetics Unit
Geonomic Studies on Oral Cancer
Differential Expression Profile of miRNAs in Oral Cancer
RNA was isolated from histopathologically confirmed ten tissue sample pairs (cancer and normal).
RNA quantity and quality was checked using Nano-drop and Agilent’s Bioanalyzer. With the isolated
RNA, two sets of Megaplex RT PCR for 752 miRNA genes were performed. Efficiency of this two
megaplex reaction was checked using an expression assay of one endogenous control small RNA
expression assay viz. rnu48. TaqMan TLDA assay were performed to check RNA expression in each
case-control pair. Primary data were analyzed using SDS software and Data assist. Differential
expression pattern were studied from ΔΔct values. After multiple corrections, 13 Human miRNA were
found to be significantly dys-regulated. All these miRNAs are reported to be associated to critical
cellular function like cell cycle. We would be checking the expression pattern of these miRNAs in other
tumor samples using different method of RNA expression.
Mismatch primer in PCR: a source of misgenotyping
A large-scale misgenotyping was observed when heterozygotes at NAT1 Single Nucleotide

Polymorphisms (SNPs) (rs1057126 and rs15561), determined by Taqman method, were cross-
validated by sequencing method using single nucleotide mismatch primer. The same primer, without
mismatch, determined correct heterozygous genotype. Highest (100%) and lowest (0%)
misgenotyping were observed when the mismatch was at the 3rd and 15th nucleotide positions from 3'
end of the primer, respectively. This indicates a relationship between position of the mismatch and
frequency of misgenotyping. Homozygotes can be genotyped correctly irrespective of mismatch
position in the primer. Similar results were observed for two other SNPs (rs12947788 and rs12951053)
at TP53 in a different sequence context. Misgenotyping was also checked by quantitative Taqman
assay and it was observed that one of the two chromosome stands in heterozygote is amplified
16times more that the other chromosome strand. As a result peak of one allele or chromosome strand
is observed in sequencing chromatograph instead of peaks of two alleles/strands in heterozygote. So,
heterozygote is read as homozygote in sequencing chromatograph. It may be concluded that, along
with the other PCR conditions, perfect matching of primer with template strand is a key issue to get
correct genotype. So care should be taken to design the primer from the template sequence where
SNPs is/are absent. The importance of the work lies on the fact that misgenotyping may occur if
mismatch primers are used unintentionally due to the presence of SNP(s) and may lead the work to
report faulty allele or genotypic frequency.
B. Roy
Statistical Genomics
The focus of these studies is to critically analyze existing statistical methodologies and to develop new
methodologies for human genetics, especially for gene-mapping, genotype-environment interactions
and human evolution.
Statistical Methods for Analysis of Complex Traits
The focus of these studies is to critically analyze existing statistical methodologies and to develop new
methodologies for human genetics, especially for gene-mapping, genotype-environment interactions
and human evolution.
Some novel statistical methods have been developed for association analyses of complex genetic
traits. These include:
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(a) A logistic-based regression approach for association mapping of quantitative traits using
transmission-disequilibrium
(b) A Semi-parametric Bayesian approach for deciphering population structure and adjusting for
case-control association studies
(c) Developing a Poisson regression model for association mapping of count data.
(d) Evaluating the effect of population stratification on power of family-based association studies
both for binary as well as quantitative traits.
(e) Developing KBAT-based method for quantitative traits using genotype similarity between
individuals in a case-control study
(f) Developing a test for joint effect of two loci in a case-control association study
(g) Permutation based calculation of p-values for the new method developed for detecting
interaction between loci
(h) A multi-locus approach to test for genetic association of rare variants with phenotype
(i) Multilocus association test for quantitative traits
Analyses were performed on:
(a) Type 2 diabetes and related quantitative precursors.

(b) Major psychoses phenotypes including bipolar disorder and schizophrenia.
I. Mukhopadhyay
Social Sciences Division
Economic Research Unit
The scientific workers of the Unit are extensively involved in research, teaching, training, consultancy
and academic administration. The research activities are carried out both at individual and
collaborative/interdisciplinary levels. These include theoretical and empirical research in diverse areas
such as agricultural economics, applied and theoretical econometrics, game theory and application,
industrial organization, environmental economics, inequality, poverty and welfare, international
economics, econophysics, development economics, political economy, polarization and conflict,
mathematical finance, financial econometrics, gender inequality, social indicators of development,
decentralized planning and macroeconomic problems of Indian economy. Some details are given
below.
Finance, multi-dimensional well-being, polarization, voting games and econophysics

Satya R. Chakravarty
Occupational Segregation in Rural India
There exists a vast economic literature on the issue of inequality in the distribution of income and
wealth across different socio-economic groups. Very few attempts have, however, been made to
examine empirically the inequality in the distribution of people across occupations, particularly in the
less developed economy. It is a known fact that unequal access to jobs for male and female workers
across various occupations takes place in almost all countries of the world. Some theoretical tools to
the problem of measuring occupational segregation have appeared in the literature. Their applications
in the case of unorganized labour market (e.g., rural labour market) in the less developed economy
seem to be lacking. The purpose of this study is to examine the level of employment segregation in the
rural labour force of India for the period 1981 to 2001, using the existing tools of analysis of
segregation.
Manabendu Chattopadhyay
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Tariff and the Domestic Production of Importables: A Paradoxical Result
This work explores the consequence of an imposition of tariff on the domestic production of
importables, in a small open economy. The model closely builds up on the work of Matusz (1996). The
commodity market is monopolistically competitive and the labour market exhibits Shapiro-Stiglitz kind
of unemployment. The small country assumption makes both the foreign price and the number of
foreign brands constant. It is shown that in a stable equilibrium, imposing a tariff unambiguously
reduces the domestic production of importables. The criterion for stability that we impose is more
formal and intuitively appealing than in Matusz (1996).
Brati Sankar Chakraborty
Strategic Outsourcing with Technology Transfer
This study analyzes the outsourcing decision of a firm for a key input of a final good production to an
independent input supplier even though the firm has the option of producing that key input in-house at
a lower cost with a better technology. It is found that for smaller technology gap with the independent
input supplier the firm would outsource and for larger technology gap it would produce the input in-
house for itself and for its rivals. The outsourcing occurs in order to take advantage of its sale of
superior technology to the independent input supplier at a high payment although it involves a high
price for the input to be acquired from the monopoly input supplier. Though the firm gains from
strategic outsourcing, consumers’ welfare as well as social welfare goes down.
Tarun Kabiraj and Uday Bhanu Sinha
Intra Country and Cross Country Price Comparisons
Estimating Intra Country and Cross Country Purchasing Power Parities from Household
Expenditure Data Using Single Equation and Complete Demand Systems Approach: India and
Vietnam
This study departs from the previous literature on purchasing power parity (PPP) by proposing a
demand system based methodology for calculating the PPP that takes account of consumer
preferences and allows for the substitution effect of price changes. The methodology is applied to
calculate PPP between the Indian Rupee and the Vietnamese Dong at aggregate country to country
level and also between sectors and across expenditure classes. The regional prices have been
constructed, using a method proposed herein, from unit values after adjusting for quality and
demographic effects. The system based methodology yields PPP rates that are consistent with the
conventional CPD method based PPPs, yields standard errors of the PPPs and allows for testing
invariance of inter-country PPP across expenditure classes. The disaggregated PPPs question the
conventional practice of using a single economy-wide PPP in inequality and poverty comparisons.
Amita Majumder, Ranjan Ray and Kompal Sinha
The Calculation of Rural Urban Food Price Differentials from Unit Values in Household
Expenditure Surveys: a new procedure and comparison with existing methods
While national and international statistical agencies spend much resource on calculating purchasing
power parity (PPP) between countries, relatively little attention is given to PPP calculations within
countries. Yet, for large and heterogeneous countries, such as the US and India, intra country PPP is
as important as cross-country PPP. This is particularly true of the rural urban divide in such countries
where the idea that one unit of currency has the same purchasing power in both sectors is clearly
false. This work addresses this limitation by proposing a demand system based methodology for
calculating rural urban PPP that incorporates rural urban differences in preferences and applies it to
India. The methodology is compared with conventional procedures, such as the Laspeyre’s price index
and the CPD model, and shown to have several advantages over them. The result on significant rural
urban price difference in India underlines the need to extend the cross-country PPP calculations to
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incorporate spatial differences in large, heterogeneous countries with a diverse set of preferences and
prices.
Spatial Comparisons of Prices and Expenditure in a Heterogeneous Country: Methodology with

Application to India
This study addresses two significant limitations in the literature on cross-country expenditure
comparisons: (a) treatment of all countries, large and small, as single entities with no spatial
differences inside the countries, and (b) use of Divisia price indices, rather than preference based
“exact price” indices, in the expenditure comparisons. It proposes alternative preference consistent
methods for estimating spatial price differences in a large heterogeneous country such as India. Unlike
the conventional price indices, the use of demand systems based methods allows the incorporation of
price induced substitution effects between items. The study illustrates the usefulness of the
methodology by using the “exact” spatial price indices, in conjunction with the inequality sensitive
welfare measure due to Sen, to rank the Indian states and examine changes in ranking during one of
the most significant periods in independent India. The results have methodological and empirical
implications that extend much beyond India.
Measuring Human Well-being
National Governments, International agencies, Non-government Organizations require reliable

concepts and measures of well-being in order to monitor human progress as well as to design
effective development strategies for a nation or a group or a society. In consequence, considerable
effort has been made to measure well-being at the international, national as well as individual level.
Many different notions of well-being have emerged in the literature. In general, ‘well-being’ is a concept
or abstraction that refers to the state of a person’s life. It reflects the various activities or achievements
that constitute a good form of life. In recent decades there has been widespread agreement that well-
being is a multidimensional concept that embraces many aspects of human life. The present study is
another such approach. It takes into account economic, social as well as environmental aspects of
well-being and formulates a composite index. The value of this index estimated for different countries
at a point of time and for a country over a period of time enables one to measure the relative position
of well-being for a number of countries at a point of time and changing position of a country over a
period of time.
Krishna Mazumdar
Subgroup-additivity in the queueing problem
The notion of ‘subgroup additivity’ is defined and is used as the main axiom to investigate its
implications for the queueing problem. The axiom of subgroup additivity requires that a rule assigns
the same expected ‘relative’ utility to each agent whether an agent's expected relative utility is
calculated from the problem involving all agents or from its sub-problems with a smaller number of
agents. Five important rules in the queueing problem are characterized, they are: the minimal transfer
rule, the maximal transfer rule, the symmetrically balanced VCG rule, the pivotal rule and the reward
based pivotal rule. Given some basic axioms and subgroup additivity, the characterization results can
be obtained by additionally imposing either strategic axioms (like weaker versions of
strategyproofness) or equity axioms (adjusted versions of egalitarian equivalence). Each strategic
axiom can be replaced by an appropriate equity axiom for the characterization of all five rules.
Manipushpak Mitra and Youngsub Chun
Strategy-proofness and Pareto-efficiency in Classical Exchange Economies
A long-standing question on the structure of strategyproof and Pareto-efficient social choice functions
(SCFs) in classical exchange economies (Hurwicz (1972)) is revisited in this paper. Using techniques
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developed by Myerson in the context of auction design, it is shown that in a specific quasi-linear
domain, every efficient and strategy-proof SCF satisfying non-bossiness and a mild continuity property
is dictatorial. The result holds for an arbitrary number of agents but the two-person version does not
require either the non-bossiness or continuity assumptions. It also follows that the dictatorship
conclusion holds on any superset of this domain. A result using the minimum consumption guarantee
result (in the spirit of Serizawa and Weymark (2003)) is also provided.
Manipushpak Mitra, Mridu Prabal Goswami and Arunava Sen
Growth and Nutritional Status of Pre-school Children in India: A Comparison of Two Recent
Time Periods
Background. Preschool children call for focused attention in India because India has the highest
percentage of undernourished children in the world
Objective. To compare the growth and nutritional status of Indian preschool children for the periods
1998/99 and 2005/06,
Subjects and methods. Using data on weight and length/height as well as the socio-demographic
background of preschool children from National Family Health Surveys (NFHS) from 1998/99 and
2005/06, we determined the distribution of weight and length/height and their association with socio-
demographic variables.
Results. The distributions of weight and length/height around the mean remained remarkably stable
over age but were much greater in India than the international norms. The rates of growth of mean
weight and length/height were far lower in India than the international norms up to the age of 2 years.
The temporal trend indicates declines in the percentages of undernourished (low weight-for-age) and
stunted (low height-for-age) children over the 7-year period, although the degree of improvement was
far better for stunting than for underweight. Mother’s educational status is the only variable that has
been found to influence child nutrition.
Conclusion. Level of mother’s education needs urgent attention with top priority, to reduce the status
of underweight and stunting of children. This also implies that, for future benefit, girls should be given
more facilities for better education. Breastfeeding and weaning practices also need special attention.
Manoranjan Pal, Pronab Sen, Susmita Bharati,
Suparna Som and Premananda Bharati
Is Son Preference Pervasive in India?
In this paper we have measured the degree of son preference in different states and zones of India.
We have also investigated the effect of socio-economic and socio-cultural variables on son preference
through logistic regression using National Family Health Survey (NFHS–3) data of 2005-06. The study
is based on 81,844 reproductive-age women (15-49 years old) from all states in India. It is seen
through our data that mothers in India have a strong preference for having two children with at least
one son. However, the desire for daughters also exists among mothers with two or more children. The
Central Zone of India has the highest percentage of households with son preference while the South
Zone has the least. High son-preference states include Madhya Pradesh, Manipur, Meghalaya,
Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan and Bihar. Low son-preference states include
Karnataka, Mizoram, New Delhi, Goa, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu. In general, son
preference is very strong among Indian women, mainly due to lack of education and socio-religious
constraints. The importance of agriculture is one of the main reasons for son preference in India.
Susmita Bharati, Suparna Shome, Manoranjan Pal,
Prabir Chaudhury and Premananda Bharati
Trends in Socio-Economic and Nutritional Status of under Six Children in India
The main aims of the study are (i) to determine the prevalence of under nutrition and severe anaemia,
(ii) degree of association of under nutrition and severe anaemia of the under-six children in India with
some socio-economic variables. Using Reproductive and Child Health Survey data, Z–score of weight-
for-age (WAZ) and haemoglobin status were analyzed to understand the state and age-wise variation
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and their association with the socio-demographic variables through logistic regression analysis. The
prevalence of undernutrition according to both the criteria was first seen to increase, attain a maximum
value at some age in between 12 months to 48 months and then decrease afterwards. State-wise
distribution showed a close link between the stage of development and the prevalence of
undernutrition - prevalence being less for developed states. The rates were also less for the north-
eastern states of India. The regression analysis clearly points out that children with illiterate mothers or
of lower age groups or from low standard of living households are more prone to become
undernourished. The economic growth alone is not sufficient for substantially reducing undernutrition.
It is necessary to improve the status of literacy, especially of female literacy, in order to reduce the
prevalence of undernutrition and anaemia among children. It is not only economic development but the
overall human development which is needed in India.
Susmita Bharati, Manoranjan Pal, S. Chakrabarty and Premananda Bharati
Dimensions of Globalization and their Effects on Economic Growth and Human Development
Index
The globalisation is supposed to reduce regional inequality, poverty and promote sustainability and
improve overall human quality. Several studies have provided contradictory results in regard to the
effect of globalisation, either in case of growth of GDP, or reduction in inequality and poverty or
maintaining environmental sustainability and finally the human development. This paper attempts to
examine the pattern of globalisation across the countries along with its effect on the growth of GDP as
well as human development index. The term globalization is becoming more and more meaningful as
can be seen from the interrelations of these variables. Also globalization has been seen to have effect
on the contemporary and very recent future values only.
Utpal Kumar De and Manoranjan Pal
Final Demand, Technical Structure and Reallocation of Value Added
Relative growth of the service sector vis-à-vis the commodity sector seems to be a fact in almost all
developing economies. The apparent trend of growing importance of services has roused the
economists and other observers to find out its causes and implications. There has been a question
about whether the observation is due to underestimation of real growth in the service sector caused by
service-measurement problems or due to overestimation of productivity The question that motivates us
is how the service (or, the tertiary) sector grows so fast, or alternatively, how the relative share of the
service sector grows so much? The project is based on the IOTTs for the respective years, and also
the corresponding CSO national accounts estimates.
Chiranjib Neogi and Madhusudan Datta
Women Empowerment in India
Present study is based on the conceptions that to what extent women are empowered in Indian
society to make their own choices and can transform those choices into desired action. In this context
this study attempts to measure the level of women empowerment achieved in India and identify the
determining factors behind such empowerment.
Chaiti Sharma Biswas
Asymmetric Mean Reversion and Volatility Dynamics in Cross- Country Stock Returns
Transmission of price and volatility spillovers across stock markets of different groups/blocks of
countries is quite common in these days of informational efficiency. Obviously, the asymmetric nature
of mean reversion and nonlinear dynamics in volatility are important considerations in studying these
cross- country spillover effects. In this study, the volatility-return relationships of cross-market and
own-market have been explicitly captured by the GARCH-in-Mean model. The news impact has been
considered in the framework of multivariate GARCH model. The empirical findings are encouraging in
terms of cross-country spillover effects.
Nityananda Sarkar
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Stability of the Hybrid New Keynesian Phillips Curve: A Study for India’s Inflation
One of the central issues in macroeconomics is the relationship between inflation and unemployment /
output gap, called the ‘Phillips curve’. However, a modified version of the original ‘Phillips curve’, called
the ‘hybrid new Keynesian Phillips curve’ (HNKPC), is now used extensively to study inflation
dynamics. In such studies, one important econometric issue which has hitherto not been looked into in
great detail is that of stability of the relationship. Our findings, based on recent data, suggest that there
exists no relationship between inflation and output gap i.e., HNKPC does not hold. Further, based on
the model envisaged in HNKPC, Andrews’ test suggests the existence of a structural break in the
stationary series of inflation. Finally, it has been found that while in the first sub-period thus formed,
HNKPC does not hold, in the other sub-period, the relationship i.e., HNKPC holds.
Nityananda Sarkar
Predictability of Indian Daily Stock Returns under Alternative Volatility and Distributional
Assumptions
This study is concerned with predictability of Indian stock returns under alternative volatility
specifications as well as conditional distributional assumptions. This study has been carried out with
daily level data, based on India’s premier stock index, BSESENSEX covering the post-liberalisation
period spanning January 1996 to December 2010. Three alternative models of volatility viz., EGARCH,
TGARCH and asymmetric PARCH for representing the phenomenon of ‘leverage effect’ in returns, and
two alternative conditional distributions for the innovations – standardized Student’s t - distribution
and standardized GED- for capturing the leptokurtic property of the return distribution have been
considered for this study, and comparisons across these models have been done using suitable in-
sample and out-of-sample forecasting criteria. It can be concluded from the results that EGARCH,
TGARCH and asymmetric PARCH models show the presence of ‘leverage effect’ in returns. It has also
been found that the assumption of normality for the conditional distribution is not statistically quite
tenable against GED and also against the standardized Student’s t - distribution under all the four
conditional volatility models including standard GARCH, for the BSESENSEX series.
Nityananda Sarkar
Forecasting House Price in the United States: A Time Series Study of Different Models with
Multiple Structural Breaks
Despite the significant impact of the housing sector on the real sector of the economy, relatively few
studies have conducted house price forecasting exercises using alternative modeling approaches. The
main objective of this paper is to forecast house prices in the United States for a very recent time
period that encompasses the ongoing slump in the housing market. Our empirical findings clearly
show that four structural breaks in the series have occurred during this period, and the estimated
break points are February 2001, October 2003, April 2006 and August 2008 with the last break
coinciding with the time when the housing market effectively collapsed. Forecasting exercises were
also obtained using six alternative models – ARMA, ARMA-EGARCH, Random Acceleration (RA),
regime switching SETAR and STAR as well as a non-stationary model with structural break(s) in trend.
Based on our findings, we recommend that time series models with due consideration to structural
breaks in the non-stationary series be used for the purpose of both forecasting and policy decisions in
the housing market of the U.S.A. in the aftermath of the crisis.
Nityananda Sarkar
Performance of Some Competing Estimators for Multicollinearity under Different Loss

Functions
In presence of multicollinearity, the ordinary least squares estimator no longer remains efficient. To
tackle such a situation, alternative estimators like the PCR, ORR and the r-(k-d) class of estimators
have been proposed. Comparisons across such estimators are made based on different loss
functions. This study has proposed a new estimator and then compared its performance with some of
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the existing ones using different loss functions. Conditions for superiority of one over some others
have been obtained, and then some tests have been proposed to test whether the conditions hold or
not in a given sample. Empirical exercises, wherever applicable, have also been carried out.
Nityananda Sarkar
Equilibrium Play and Learning in the Decentralized Voluntary Provision of Public Goods: An
Experimental Investigation
The research examines free riding and its mitigation in a public goods game where benefit received
varies stochastically with effort. We study the effect of a minimum standard and find that a learning
model may provide the best fit to the data.
Priyadarshi Banerjee
The Effect of Minimal Group Framing on a Dictator Game Experiment
The effect of using two different framing of instructions is examined. One is called the charity frame
and the other the group frame, in the Dictator game. The former frames the dictator choice in terms of
giving to a randomly matched participant, whereas the latter frames the dictator choice in terms of
allocating between the dictator and a randomly matched participant who is referred to as partner. It is
found that the group framing is associated with significantly higher transfers from the proposers to the
recipient in the experiment.
Price Interventions in Bertrand Oligopoly with Costly Entry
When firms set prices and face entry costs, efficiency in production and in entry are not always
simultaneously achieved, generating the possibility that regulatory interventions can lead to efficiency
enhancements. Through the Bertrand model augmented with a costly entry stage it is shown that in
markets with public entry and regular downward-sloping demand, if firms are symmetric and engage in
symmetric behaviour in equilibrium, a low price floor, close to the marginal cost, can induce a Pareto
improvement. The effect may leave a trace when entry costs are low. The optimal floor-ceiling
combination fixes the price, equating the two.
Democracy, Development and the Informal Sector
The paper develops a political economy model for a less developed region where a significantly large
number of people belonging to the informal sector depend on political favours for their survival. The
main result is that in such an environment the ruling party might choose anti-development policies to
maximize its chances of re-election. Thus universal franchise will lead to inefficiencies in such
economies.
Abhirup Sarkar
Educational Investment of Different Castes: An Anomaly
India has well placed positive discriminative practices ensuring reservations for backward communities
in public sector jobs and public educational institutions. We present striking empirical evidence using a
household-level cross-sectional data from the state of West Bengal where there is a strong parallel
system of private coaching. The expenditure on private coaching provides a channel to observe
extensively investment in education by households. We find that backward community households
spend significantly less on private coaching of their children, even controlling for all available socio-
economic background variable. This result is posited to have come from two possible sources: a
cultural paradigm or a consequence of positive discriminative practices. It is more likely than not a
cultural paradigm driving this phenomenon.
Abhirup Sarkar
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Increasing Returns, Non-Traded Goods and Wage Inequality
The issue of wage inequality is considered in a trade model with increasing returns and a non-traded
sector. Three models in succession are built to provide an explanation for trade driven rise in wage
inequality for both the trading partners. The first model works with fixed supply of factors, the second
version has a scenario where skilled labour can potentially work as unskilled labour, but not
conversely, and the third considers the case of costly accumulation of skill. In all three cases, wage
inequality can potentially rise in both the countries. In the second version of the model, a theory of
trade, working as a `vent for surplus', is proposed and the third delivers the case where wage
inequality rises along with higher skill accumulation.
Abhirup Sarkar
Growth and the Big City Lights: Convergence and Divergence Across Indian Districts
A prominent feature of India’s growth miracle is the disparate experiences of growth across India, with
the divergence in income levels between the fast and slower growing states approaching the size of
gaps seen between the world’s poorest and richest countries. To better understand the sources of
divergence and convergence we use a new data set of district level data to estimate growth and
convergence rates across India. With over 500 districts in India this data set provides a unique
opportunity to understand within and between state differences in growth rates. A novel aspect of the
paper is the incorporation of the distance between a district and its closest metropolitan center, as a
geographical variable that affects the extent of convergence. But we also find substantial evidence of
divergence between districts within states. Further, it is shown that the distance to the metropolitan
center has a great deal of explanatory power in understanding differences in growth rates across
districts. It is found that, after allowing for differences in distances to metropolitan centers and other
conditioning variables, that there is a conditional Beta convergence rate of around 3% per year, very
similar to other convergence studies
Samarjit Das, C. Ghate and P. Robertson
Understanding Cross-sectional Dependence in Panel Data
This paper examines asymptotic properties of parameter estimators for various linear panel data
models including dynamic panel models incorporating various forms of cross-sectional dependence. It
is shown that, both fixed effect estimator and random effect estimator may be inconsistent in several
real life situations with cross-sectionally dependent data. For dynamic panel, IV estimator is
considered. The IV estimator is shown to have similar properties as that of within estimator. Attempt is
also made to comprehend the cross sectional dependence based on several popular norms.
Samarjit Das and G.K. Basak
Poverty, Growth and Redistribution in India: An Empirical Investigation
This paper attempts to measure the contributions of growth and income distribution to the changes in
poverty in India during the post reform period. The analysis is carried out separately for the rural and
urban sectors; and also for some major occupational and religious subgroups at both national and
state level to unearth the most affected or deprived sections of the population. The growth
components for both rural and urban sectors are found to be negative implying the decline in poverty
over this period. It is also found that, there are large variations of poverty across states and across
various household types. Rural poverty, as expected, gets mostly concentrated in the households
engaged in agricultural labor; and urban poverty is strongly present in households categorized as
casual labor.
Samarjit Das and G. Sinha
Incidence of child labour and child schooling in India: Pattern and determinants
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The issue of child labour is considered as serious social problem in developing countries, as
engagement of a child in labour type of activities leads to the denial of normal childhood. Early entry
into labour market at formative stage of life does mean absconding from proper schooling leading to
loss of future scope of better livelihood, as the existing literature shows that there is wage premium for
education in Indian labour market. According to the estimates of the International Labour Organisation
(ILO), India is in leading position in terms of incidence of child labour in the world. In this context a
study has been carried out to address four broad issues, viz. (i) to identify the key industries of child
employment in India; to identify supply side variables of household decision of sending a child to work;
to identify demand side variables of household decision of child schooling in terms of decision of
dropout; and to test regional and gender disparity in terms of these decisions. The study clearly shows
that the dropout phenomenon sharply increased with level of education. Incidence of dropout was
more pronounced among urban children between primary and middle level of education. Incidence of
child labour indicates a varying pattern in child employment across sex and region suggesting the
need of gender and region specific policy intervention for proper eradication of the problem. The
continuation of child employment in hazardous occupation points toward serious failure of government
policy measures in dealing with the issue in India. The test results show that children in rural area
were more involved in labour type of jobs compared to their counterpart in urban area showing strong
regional difference in this regard. The test results also indicate serious gender implications in both of
these decisions.
Saswati Das
Human Well-being in India
Up to the middle of seventies, economists believed that economic growth would automatically lead to
overall development of the society. But experience shows that economic prosperity measured in terms
of per capita income does not always ensure enrichment in quality of life reflected in broader
dimensions of well being like longevity, literacy etc. UNDP's Human Development Index (HDI) is an
attempt to sense the human development across the nations, but it admits that it might be worthwhile if
the index is computed for smaller areas and for various segments of the population. In this context an
article has been prepared on human well-being in India. The study shows that the issues relating to
human development, in Indian context are meager and most of these studies are at national or
provincial level. But for better understanding towards the rapid growth of Indian economy since 1980s
on the livelihood of the ordinary people, cross-income group estimates of human development would
be a reliable option. Estimates of HDI by income deciles groups can serve the purpose efficiently. In
this respect, this front line issue is least attempted so far and in this article, this issue has been
addressed in Indian context as well as for any other country’s perspective. Most important literature
related to the topic has been reviewed suggesting relevant references/additional readings for future
study.
Saswati Das
Labouring Boys in Urban India
According to the global estimates of the International Labour Organization, the incidence of child
labour is very high in developing countries and India is in the leading position in the world. So there is
no doubt that in India the issue of child labour problem is a serious one. As the labour market
opportunities are more diverse for urban children, especially for urban male children than their
counterpart in the rural sector, hence they need some special attention. In this context an article has
been prepared to address the issue for child labourers in urban India. It reviews the most important
literature, related to the topic. The article discusses future scope of research on this topic suggesting
key references and additional readings too.
Saswati Das and Diganta Mukherjee
Economic Analysis Unit, Bangalore
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The Economic Analysis Unit (EAU) is engaged in research in quantitative methods in economics and
social sciences. Application of these methods to different problems in agriculture, industry and
monetary economics is actively pursued. Topics for the current research include developing economy-
wide models using VAR and VEC methodologies and simulations; and also analysis of the importance
of institutions for economic growth and globalization.
Linguistic Research Unit
During the period (from April 2011 to March 2012) the Linguistic Research Unit of the Institute has
been continuing with its programs of research in the areas of Cognitive Linguistics, Corpus Linguistics
and Language Technology, Sociolinguistics, Field Linguistics and Descriptive Linguistics.
Substantivist Lexicological Study of Bangla
A substantivist study of conceptual networks on the basis of Whole Word Morphology is initiated.
Earlier work has demonstrated a connection between this inquiry and the linguistics of lexicophrasal
difficulty. Effort is made for intensive research in conceptualization kernel studies. The purpose is to
develop empirical base for a corpus-based electronic lexicon for Bangla. A corpus-based electronic
lexicon is an indispensable resource for research and application in Language Technology (LT) and
Natural Language Processing (NLP). This type of resource is of use in machine translation,
information extraction, word-sense disambiguation, semantic net, ontology, etc. Also, it has direct
academic relevance in electronic dictionary and thesaurus development, language teaching (first and
second language), discourse analysis, lexical semantics, and language cognition. The proposed
Electronic Lexicon will be the first work of its kind for Bengali, and the enterprise may be extended to
other Indian languages if corpora are available. The utility of the work is further enhanced by two
specific features. First, the proposed Lexicon is of the Differentiated type in the sense of Dasgupta,
Misra and Datta (2002). In a Differentiated Lexicon, the asymmetry between peripheral and kernel
items drives intra-lexical glossing, and the artificial metalanguage Esperanto serves as the glossing
mediator, on cognitive-scientific grounds provided in Dasgupta (2006). Second, the proposed Lexicon
not only uses frequency within the corpus to determine the kernel-periphery boundary but also
provides specific frequency data for each lexeme. This will be the first electronic lexicon for Bengali.
Probal Dasgupta
Interlexical Study of Asamiya in a Substantivist Framework
The purpose of this project is to develop the empirical base for electronic lexical resources for
Asamiya. Electronic lexical resources are an essential presupposition for other sectors in research
within the domains of Language Technology (LT) and Natural Language Processing (NLP). This type
of resource is of use in machine translation, information extraction, word-sense disambiguation,
semantic net, ontology, etc. Also, it has direct academic relevance in electronic dictionary and
thesaurus development, language teaching (first and second language), discourse analysis, lexical
semantics, and language cognition. The proposed lexical resources will set a precedent for Asamiya,
and the enterprise may be extended to other Northeastern Indian languages for which background
descriptive material is available on a similar scale. The utility of the project is further enhanced by the
fact that it extends the advances in interlexical understanding attained in the context of earlier
research on Asamiya, Boro and Bengali.
Probal Dasgupta
Sociolinguistics
The unit has taken up studies in linguistic (lexical and syntactic) difficulties in cognition of language in
different discourse frames. The sociolinguistic dimension of linguistic difficulty has been studied within
single languages, in relation to the mapping between the full conceptualization system and its basic
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level kernel, and across languages in the Indian context. Here the important target of study has been
the place of English in the sociolinguistic fabric of India.
Probal Dasgupta
Corpus Based English Language Teaching (C-BELT) System
We are working on a model called Corpus-Based English Language Teaching (C-BELT). The idea of
teaching English to learners without reference to English Language Corpora (ELC) has become a non-
reliable proposition, as data and information obtained from ELC provide authenticity and reliability
towards the process of teaching English as a second language. We propose to utilize ELC directly in
classroom situation with additional help of some corpus processing tools and techniques for teaching
English to Indian learners. We also propose to encourage Indian learners to extract relevant linguistic
data, examples and information from ELC to enhance their knowledge and communication skill in
English. Moreover, we envisage ELC as a secondary resource to develop ELT text books, bilingual
dictionaries, dictionary of idioms, phrases and proverbs, and grammars for the Indian learners. We are
also working for generating a lexical database of basic and graded vocabulary of English to be used in
the C-BELT system.
Niladri Sekhar Dash
Domain-Specific Parallel Corpora of Hindi and Bengali
We have developed a Hind-Bengali parallel translation corpus keeping Hindi as source language and
Bengali as target language. The first phase (ends in 2012) has generated 50,000 parallel sentences in
Bengali covering two major domains of information sharing: health and tourism. Each sentence has an
average length of 16 or more words. The most vital feature of the ILCI database is that parallelism
between the two languages is preserved both at semantic and syntactic levels – making the corpus an
indispensable resource for cross-lingual information retrieval, core grammar writing, machine
translation, and cross-cultural research and investigation. The second phase of the works is supposed
to start in April 2012 and it includes additional two domains: Agriculture and Entertainment. An
important bi-product of this work is the generation of a bilingual parallel lexical database that may lead
to compilation of digital bilingual and multilingual dictionaries for Hind and Bengali. The corpus is now
available from the TDIL Data Centre, Govt. of India as well as from the developer.
Niladri Sekhar Dash
POS Tagging of Bengali Words in the Bengali Corpus
We have developed a POS tagset for Bengali called “BIS Tagset” (Bureau of Indian Standard) as a
benchmark standard to be used in future POS tagging of Bengali corpora. We have used this POS
tagset to develop a POS tagged corpus of 50,000 Bengali sentences relating to health and tourism
domains. An important bi-product of this work is generation of POS tagged digital lexical database for
Bengali, which may be used to compile digital Bengali dictionaries and thesauruses. The database can
also be used information retrieval, grammar development, machine learning, language teaching, word
sense disambiguation, and other works.
Niladri Sekhar Dash
Digital WordNet for Bengali
We are developing a WordNet for Bengali that can stand parallel to other WordNets being developed
for other Indian languages, such as, Hindi, Sanskrit, Marathi, Konkani, Urdu, Oriya, Gujarati, Kashmiri,
Tamil, Telugu, and Malayalam, etc. We have adopted an intricate interfaces of lexical structures made
of synsets (i.e., set of synonyms) where semantic relations, in which synsets act as sets of synonyms
to refer to similar or near similar concepts, are linked up with one-another in implicit dichotomies of
semantic relations like hypernymy and hyponymy (is-a relation), meronymy and holonymy (part-of
relations), and troponymy (manner-of relations), etc. expressible through their conceptual linkages. In
this act of Wordnet creation, the central focus is not on the words but on the concepts word(s) are
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capable to denote. Based on the idea of covering a large number of senses within a generic frame, we
have used the Expansion Approach, since our primary goal is to link up the Bengali synsets with the
synsets of other geographically, genealogically and typologically related Indian languages and with
English. So far we have completed more than 21,000 synsets and are on the process of creating more
than 1000 language specific synset (LSSs) that will represent the uniqueness of Bengali life, living,
language, people, and culture.
Niladri Sekhar Dash
SHELL System for Teaching English to Bengali Learners
Think of a situation when English is being reintroduced in Bengali after a gap of nearly 20 years at the
primary level. At the crucial stage of reintroduction of English at primary level in West Bengal it is
noted that there is neither suitable textbooks, nor good ELT resources, nor trained teachers. That
means there is no academic support of any kind that is available for fruitful execution of ELT courses
in the state. Keeping this state of affairs and the target learners in mind we have propose a strategy for
developing ELT textbooks in such a way that learners are able to learn English, at least at the initial
stage, at their own ways through direct utilization and assistance of their mother tongue. Since no one
is there to help them in learning English, they will help themselves in this process of learning.
Therefore, we call strategy as the Self Help English Language Learning (SHELL) System. This new
strategy is adopted on an experimental basis for developing text books and learning materials for the
new generation of Bengali learners who are being exposed to English for the first time in life at the
primary level. Let it be assumed that the target learners, for which this strategy is being proposed,
have acquired some kind of linguistic efficiency in their mother tongue, and are now sent to primary
schools to learn English as a second language. It has been also assumed that these students receive
no academic help or tutorial support from their parents in the act of learning English, as these students
are mostly first generation learners. What they can expect is a kind of passive help or guidance from
their teachers only at school hours.
Niladri Sekhar Dash
Field Linguistic Survey at Giridih, Jharkhand
We conducted Language Attitude Survey in three villages in the District of Giridih, Jharkhand among
the school teachers about their attitudes towards their mother tongues and languages they use. We
also collected language data (in the form of free discourse based spoken text samples) from nearly 20
native Thet speakers living in three tribal villages in the district of Giridih, Jharkhand for developing a
digital archive of the language and other linguistics properties for the speech community. A team of
linguists worked together in this work of digital language data collection and storage.
Niladri Sekhar Dash
Planning Unit, Delhi
Planning unit faculty has, as in the past, continued to work on the cutting edge of economics research,
both in theory, as well as empirical analysis. Research in mechanism design and auction theory, long a
strength of the unit, continues. The links between education, health, and other public goods and the
distribution of income has been investigated theoretically. Social capital and collective action in the
Himalayas, agricultural fires and air pollution, and climate change and electricity demand in India are
some of the environmental issues in India on which empirical research has been conducted. Empirical
research on schooling and labor force participation has been fruitful. International trade and growth
theory continue to be active areas of research. Here is a more detailed breakdown of research
interests:
1. Female Labour Force Participation and Child Education in India: The Effect of the National
Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme
Farzana Afridi, Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay and Soham Sahoo
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2. Information provision and the quality of education in rural India

Farzana Afridi, Bidisha Barooah and Rohini Somanathan
Primary data collection across 8 districts, 100 mandals and 300 gram panchayats was completed for
PPRU and IGC funded project:
Does Female Leadership Impact on the Quality of Public Goods? Evidence from a Public
Poverty Alleviation Programme in Andhra Pradesh, India
Farzana Afridi and Vegard Iversen
1. Implementation in Multidimensional Dichotomous Domains, January 2012; first version:

September 2011
2. Strategy-proof Partitioning, January 2012, first version: May 2011

Debasis Mishra and Souvik Roy
Environmental Economics
Research in environmental economics included a study of whether embankments are a good flood-
control strategy in the Ganges-Brahmaputrabasin, appropriate climate policy instruments when the
government is unable to commit to future policy levels, experimental investigation of whether social
capital exists in rural areas and whether field experiments are correlated with actual collective action,
the impact of climate change on food prices and the distribution of income in India, the effect of
climatic variables on wheat yields, the impact of agricultural residue burning on aerosol pollution, and
the role of solar energy deployment in climate negotiations.
E. Somanathan
Optimal taxation and endogenous investment specific technological change

Chetan Ghate, Monisankar Bishnu and Pawan Gopalakrishnan
India related projects
India's structural transformation using a 2 sector OLG model

Chetan Ghate, Gerhard Glomm and Jialu Liu
Measuring long run changes in the properties of the Indian business cycle
Chetan Ghate, Ila Patanik and Radhika Pandey
Using a novel district level dataset to assess convergence using Barro-style growth
regressions in India at the district level
Chetan Ghate and Peter Robertson
Access of high schools and their indirect impact on primary schooling. Effect of NREGS on
female labour force participation and on schooling outcomes
Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay
Effects of international trade on labor markets. Growth of the services sector in the global
economy
Satya P. Das
Mechanism design in voting and auction environments
This has included characterizations of voting domains on which admit well-behaved incentive-
compatible voting rules exist.
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Investigation of domains on which incentive-compatible random voting rules are random

dictatorships
Arunava Sen
Education Financing Policy: Income Contingent Loans and Educational Poverty Traps,
Inequality, Neighbourhoods and Welfare of the Poor, Regional Inequality, Location Choice and
Quality Ladder
Tridip Ray
Population Studies Unit
Projection of Indian Population Projection by Using Leslie Matrix with Changing Age Specific
Mortality Rate, Fertility Rate and Marital Fertility Rate
Taking into consideration both age and sex dimensions of population, the study attempts at projecting
the Indian population in the next 20 years by using Leslie matrix. It assumes that age specific mortality
rate, age specific fertility rate and age specific marital fertility rate vary over time. It shows that the
projections made by the World Bank and the Census Directorate are indicative of more ageing of the
population than what it should be. It establishes that the proportion of population at ages below 10
years will increase over time with increasing success in reproductive and child health programme,
particularly the latter component.
Prasanta Pathak and Vivek Verma
Factors Associated with Mortality of Infants in Different Stages of Development in India: An In-
depth Statistical Analysis Based on NFHS -3 Data
By applying multiple logistic regression models, the study identifies the factors which are associated
with infant mortality during prenatal care, antenatal care and natal care. The factors that might be
helpful in reduction of infant mortality include seeking assistance of doctors and/or trained health
personnel, having knowledge of expected date of delivery of a baby and possible complications arising
due to prolonged labour, use of clean blade and disposable delivery kit during delivery, wiping baby to
dry state and wrapping with clean cloth after delivery, institutionalizing a delivery, use of appropriate
family planning method for spacing births and avoidance of such occupation by expecting mothers that
demands putting physical labour. Non-availability of data on immunization and occurrence of most
common diseases among the infants did not allow a more comprehensive analysis on infant mortality.
Prasanta Pathak and Joideep Sen
Estimation of Infant and Child Mortality by Months from NFHS -3 Data and Comparison of
Mortality Patterns of Male and Female Children in India by Months
Utilising NFHS -3 data, the study attempts at finding out at different ages, measured in months, the
pattern of change in mortality of female and male infants and children in India. Reference period for
mortality estimation, allowing infants and children of different cohorts to get considered, has been
determined by trial and error so as to make the estimates consistent and reliable. The study
establishes that the female infants and children have higher probabilities of death generally at ages
above four months.
Prasanta Pathak and Subhranka Pattanaik
Efficiency of Health Care in Major States of India during Different Planning Periods
In India since independence a massive manpower and public health infrastructure has been created.
But as there is no competition and hardly any choice to the poor patients resulting poor quality
services leading to allocative and technical inefficiencies. This study uses DEA model to assess and
compare the efficiency of health system within major states of India. It shows the inadequacy of health
infrastructure and manpower in the inefficient states where poor people are concentrated. Among the
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determinants of efficiency female literacy, poverty level, institutional delivery and full immunization of
children are proved to be important factors in explaining efficiency of health system in India.
Partha De
Impact of Socio-economic Inequality on Child Mortality in India
It is well known that the burden of social inequality and in particular poverty falls disproportionately on
child health and survival. Now, this inequality raises the question that, how wide this gap is, or what is
its relation with the level of child mortality. Whether these disparities are increasing or declining and
how do they differ from region to region and or from state to state within the country like India. As a
measure of inequality and to compare the disparities between different states of India, concentration
curves and indices are constructed from infant and under five mortality data classified under different
quintiles of wealth index from the National Family Health Survey (NFHS-3) data. Inequality measures
indicate that inequality in child mortality is more concentrated in the comparatively developed states
than the poorer states in India.
Partha De
Differentials of Contraceptive Use in Indian States
This study aims to estimate the differentials of the contraceptives use (modern and traditional
methods) in two regions, namely, Empowered Action Group states and South Indian states of the
Indian sub-continent. Efforts is also made to study the differentials of prevalence of contraceptive use
by some socio-economic and demographic characteristics, namely, education level of the women,
number of living children, religion, caste, education level of husband, exposure to media, female
autonomy index, son preference, experience of infant death, place of residence, wealth status of
household) within the two regions. Multiple classification analysis of these socio-economic and
demographic characteristics influencing contraceptive use of the currently married women aged 15-49
years in the two regions is applied using National Family Health Survey 3 (NFHS 3) data, the survey
conducted by International Institute for Population Sciences, Mumbai, India. The data shows that the
prevalence of modern contraceptive methods is more in South Indian states as compared to
Empowered Actions Group states, whereas, the prevalence of traditional contraceptive method is
more in the Empowered Actions Group states.
Subhash Barman
Factors Affecting Unmet Need for Family Planning in Indian States
The objective of this study is to evaluate the effect of socio-economic and demographic factors
influencing unmet need for family planning in Indian states. The concept of unmet need describes the
condition of fecund women of reproductive age who do not want to have a child soon or ever but are
not using contraception. Women with unmet need includes all fecund women who are married or living
in union – and thus presumed to be sexually active – who are not using any method of contraception
and who either do not want to have any more children (unmet need for limiting births) or want to
postpone their next birth for at least two years (unmet need for spacing births). Socio-economic and
demographic characteristics, namely, education level of the women, number of living children, religion,
caste, education level of husband, exposure to media, female autonomy index, son preference,
experience of infant death, place of residence, wealth status of household, number of children ever
born and age of the women are used in the study. Logit regression technique is applied on these
socio-economic and demographic variables using National Family Health Survey 3 data, the survey
conducted by International Institute for Population Sciences, Mumbai, India.
Subhash Barman
Cohort fertility patterns by caste and religion in India
The study investigates cohort fertility patterns of the Indian women by their caste and religion and to
forecast the year of achieving replacement level fertility for these social groups.Selected portions of
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data from all three National Family Health Surveys that were conducted in India in the last two
decades have been used in this study. A six parameter special form of the Gompertz model,
parameters of which have clear demographic interpretation, has been used to study fertility trends
among various caste and religious groups in the country. Study findings indicate that the gap between
the Hindu and the Muslim fertility had increased by 25%, following the independence of the country in
1947 and the gap is found decreasing for the recent cohorts. Assuming that fertility fall over cohorts is
linear in all the social groups until they attain the replacement level fertility of 2.1 children per woman,
it is projected that the Hindu women require an additional 10 years than the Christian women to reach
the replacement level fertility, while the Muslim women require 18 more years than the former one. It is
also found that the fertility fall is slower among the Scheduled Tribe women and they require an
additional 37 years over the women of general caste to reach the replacement level fertility.
Samba Siva Rao Pasupuleti and Prasanta Pathak
Spatial and Temporal Changes in the Dynamics of Tubal Sterilization Practice in India
There have been great shifts in the contraceptive acceptance levels in India in the last five decades. In
particular, tubal sterilization acceptors have increased many folds. In fact, role of tubal sterilization has
been considered vital in India’s fertility decline. In this study we investigate changes in the dynamics of
tubal sterilization practice in India and its different regions, over cohorts. This will offer better
explanation for variation in fertility level, across the regions of India and over cohorts. Also, it will help
to understand the changing position of women in the country. A special form of the Gompertz model
has been proposed and made use of to study the dynamics of tubal sterilization practice in India and
its different regions. Two indices that are intended to measure the amount of reproductive period
averted due to tubal sterilization have been used to explain the variation in fertility level, across the
regions of India and over cohorts.
Samba Siva Rao Pasupuleti,
Asis Kumar Chattopadhyay and Prasanta Pathak
What Makes Them Feel Healthier? The Correlates of Self Perceived Health among Older Adults
in India
The study investigates how the socio-economic factors are associated with self-perceived health
(SPH) for the older adults in India. The sources of data are 52nd and 60th Rounds of National Sample
Survey. Immediate socio-economic environment of an older adult that has been considered here
consists of living arrangement, financial dependence, marital status, number of children, economic
status of household, caste, religion and geographic region. The associations have been studied after
controlling for the objective measures of health, namely, the diseases, the impairments, the immobility
and the relative state of health. It is found that the objective measures of health and the relative
change in the state of health in the past one year contribute maximum to the information on the
perception of the present state of health. SPH has been found better for more educated older adults.
Financial dependence and poor economic status of household reduce the chances of having better
SPH. Co-residence and large sized households increase the chances of having better SPH. Older
adults in rural areas are less likely to perceive a better health status than their urban counterparts.
Sanjeev Bakshi and Prasanta Pathak
Probability distributions of number of children and age at various order births using age - birth
order - specific fertility rates
In this study, a simple analytical framework to find the probability distributions of number of children
and age at various order births, by making use of data on age-birth order-specific fertility rates, has
been proposed. The framework can be applicable to both the period and cohort fertility schedules. The
uniqueness of the proposed framework is that it does not require any sort of assumptions. The
proposed framework has been applied to the cohort birth order specific fertility rates of India and its
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different regions, and period birth order specific fertility rates of United States of America, Russia,
Netherlands and etc, to demonstrate its usefulness.
Samba Siva Rao Pasupuleti and
Asis Kumar Chattopadhyay
Indepth Study of Antenatal and Postnatal Care of Mother and Child from National Family Health
Surveys (NFHS-1, NFHS-2 and NFHS-3)
The study used ordered logit model to correlate the utilization of child immunization. Ordered logistic
regression shows that education of parents, especially of mother, utilization of antenatal care by
mother during pregnancy and social group are the major determinants of immunization coverage.
Analytical study of correlation between prenatal care and safe delivery and also between postnatal
care and child morbidity has also been done. Health Status, specifically Diarrhoea of child and mother
in different states of India has been assessed. Impact of spacing between age at marriage and first
birth on maternal and child healthcare in India has also been assessed.
Swati Sadhu
Evaluation of Border Area Development Programme
The objective of the research work is to review the impact of the Border Area Development
Programmeand bring out achievements and failuresof this programme in border districts of the North-
East States and Sikkim & West Bengal during the Eleventh Five Year Plan period.
Swagata Gupta
Psychological Research Unit
Self-efficacy of Agricultural Farmers
Data were collected from 626 farmers covering 7 districts of West Bengal. Reliability in terms of
internal consistency for five domains of self-efficacy was very high. Results show self-efficacy level is
positively correlated with some demographic variables like types of farmers, education, marital state,
land conditions and some personality traits assessed by NEO. Data analysis is in process.
D. Dutta Roy
Perceived Environmental Uncertainty in Crop Cultivation: Problem of Positive Living in the

Informal Sector
Perceived environmental uncertainty (PEU) is an important construct in psychological decision

theories and theories of organisational design. This has not been studied in the informal sector of
economy specially in the agriculture where in large number of unorganized labourers are involved in
producing crops. Current study aims at two broad objectives: (i) to examine pattern of perceived
environmental uncertainty (PEU) and (ii) to relate PEU with demographic variables. Based on focused
group discussion, four areas of PEU are conceptualized. These are dynamicity, unpredictability, loss
of control and complexity. One questionnaire (Cronbach’s alpha = 0.81) was constructed to assess the
four areas. Data were collected from 77 crop cultivators of three villages of two different districts in
West Bengal. Results revealed that crop cultivators perceived the farming environment as more
dynamic and complex to understand due to repeated purchase of new seeds, repeated adoption of
new skills and habits. Education was negatively correlated with loss of control. Significant and positive
correlation between tenure and complexity suggests that more experienced crop cultivators felt more
difficulty to understand the complex process of agricultural technology. Results were discussed in
terms of psychological counselling for positive living with interface of agricultural education.
D. Dutta Roy and Suchandra Ghosh
Final (External) Evaluation of Special Adult Literacy Programme at Tripura
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Final evaluation of special adult literacy programme on a sample of 3109 adult learners was
conducted covering all the four districts of Tripura. The evaluation was conducted on reading, writing
and numeracy. Results indicated that 88.7% of the learners in the whole state of Tripura qualified in
evaluation and nearly 73% of the learners qualified in all the three subjects.
Anjali Ghosh, Himani Bhattacharya and
other scientific members of Sociological Research Unit
Development of Questionnaire for the Assessment of Meaning in Life among Substance Users
– Meaning beyond Substance Use
Perceived life meaningfulness in an important existential concept known for enhancing long-term
recovery from substance abuse. The present study is an attempt to further develop and validate the
Perceived Life Meaningfulness Scale for substance users in recovery phase. The questionnaire was
developed initially by Shaikh & Ghosh in 2010 on account of no empirical measure of meaning in life
for substance users. Apart from giving brief overview of the original scale construction, the present
study describes the validation of the reduced 15-item version. For the present study, 150 substance
users from five different rehabilitation centers in and around Kolkata were approached. All the
participants were males who underwent rehabilitation for alcohol and drugs dependence. Principal
component analysis was done to determine construct validity of the questionnaire and Cronbach’s
alpha of the total scale score along with the sub scale scores demonstrated that the instrument was a
reliable measure of life meaningfulness. Through the construction of the scale and its sub-dimensions,
the present study gives a better understanding of life meaningfulness in context of substance use.
Fouzia Alsabah Shaikh and Anjali Ghosh
Psychological Determinants of Self Control over Addiction among Recovering Substance

Users
One of the most alarming problems in the provision of care and d-addiction treatment to substance
abusers in the inability to sustain prolonged recovery due to in adequate levels of self control over
addictive substances like alcohol and narcotic drugs. Why self control over addiction has been found
to have several determinants, the influence of a user’s perceived social support and meaning of his /
her own existence (both considered to be strong determinants of recovery for other illnesses) on self
control have not been studied. The present research work therefore aims to examine the influence of
perceived social support and meaning in life on perceived self-control over addiction among substance
abusers. Questionnaires for assessment of abstinence support and meaning in life were developed on
a sample of hundred substance users in recovery phase. Validation of the tools developed and
examination of relationship of self-control if social support and meaning was done on a sample of 150
recovering substance users. Hierarchical regression analyses revealed emotional support, abstinence
support, life meaningfulness along with age and depression to be significant predictors of self control
over addiction.
Fouzia Alsabah Shaikh and Anjali Ghosh
Relationship of Career stages with Locus of Control, Self-efficacy and Job satisfaction of
Teachers
A literature review on the relationship between career stages and teachers’ locus of control has been
done. Super’s career stage model in 1990 essentially posits four identifiable stages of a worker’s
career, namely, exploration, establishment, maintenance and disengagement. The model was suitably
adapted for teachers by Huberman in 1989. He proposed career entry, stabilization, diversification and
change, stocktaking and interrogations at mid-career, serenity and affective distance, conservatism,
and disengagement. Huberman largely characterized the proposed career stages in terms of teachers’
individual behaviors and beliefs, not only about themselves and their work, but about students, other
teachers and work environments. A pilot study has been conducted on 78 teachers of Kolkata. It has
been found that career stages are significantly related with locus of control, teachers’ self-efficacy and
job satisfaction. Further data are being collected from different schools of different zone of Kolkata.
Rituparna Basak and Anjali Ghosh
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Personality Profile, Stress and Job Satisfaction of Indian Sea Farers
The study aims at empirical investigation of personality profile of seafarers with emphasis on stress,
team work, job satisfaction and related aspects and their roles in shipping. The study also proposes to
assess job satisfaction level of the Indian sea-farers and their effects. The data collection from the
Deck and Engine Room Officers and crews are going on.
Rumki Gupta and Jayeta Dhara
Cognitive Self-efficacy of Schizophrenia
Schizophrenia is a mental disorder characterized by disintegration of thought processes and of

emotional responsiveness. It most commonly manifests as auditory hallucinations, paranoid or bizarre
delusions, or disorganized speech and thinking, and it is accompanied by significant social or
occupational dysfunction. Prognosis of schizophrenia depends on cognitive abilities and ability to
make adequate social function. Belief can also help individual to regulate own cognitive functions.
Cognitive self-efficacy (CSE) can be defined as belief in one’s own capability to use cognitive function
effectively to attain certain desired goals. Data were collected from 68 patients diagnosed with
Schizophrenia using CSE, Positive and negative symptoms scale (PANSS), and social functioning.
Results reveals the CSE facilitates social functioning and inhibits Positive and negative symptoms of
Schizophrenia.
Shivani Santosh and Debdulal Dutta Roy
A People-Centric Approach in Adoption of Innovation
Growing complexity and uncertainty in the causal texture lead organizations toward innovation.
Innovation refers to the creation and implementation of “new combinations”. These new combinations
can be related to new products, services, work processes, markets, delivery systems and policies. So
adoption of innovation has become a vital thing for organizational productivity and survival. The
adoption process is a sequence of stages; a potential adopter of an innovation passes through before
acceptance of a new product, service or idea. This study reviews articles on adoption of innovation
from different research journals. Based on the review the study proposes a people – centric approach
in innovation adoption. This approach suggests I-P-A model, where I indicates innovation, P indicates
people characteristics and A indicates adoption. In other words innovation-adoption relationship is
moderated by individual characteristics of employees on whom innovation is going to be imposed.
The paper discusses about various dimensions of the individuals’ characteristics, which seem to be
the determinants for adoption of innovation.
Anurupa Kundu and Debdulal Dutta Roy
A Study on Rabindrik Work Values and Locus of Control
The objectives of the study are to examine (i) Rabindrik work value importance of executives
andteachers;(ii) pattern of the locus of control of executives and teachers and (iii) to examine
relationbetween locus of control and work value importance in two occupational groups. Data were
collected by the questionnaires measuring path and goal oriented work value importance as
conceptualized by Dutta Roy and Bandopadhyay (2011) and locus of control (Pareek, 2002).
Participants of the study are executives of one oil company in public sector and teachers of one
privateschool. Both were located in Kolkata. In relation to path oriented work values, cleanliness, no
work-family conflict, active, fearlessand resolute were relatively more important to executives and
systematic, cleanliness, self-awakening, active and resolute were more important to teachers. With
regard to goal oriented work value executivepreferred family security, self-respect, positive feelings
and inner harmony more. And teachers preferred family security, universalisation, salvation,
enlightenment and pleasure to others. It is noted that teachers are more internally controlled as
compared to the executives. With respect to path oriented work values, internally controlled executives
gave more importance on Niskam-principles and externally controlled executives gave more
importance on self-understanding. On the other hand, internally controlled teachers gave more
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importance on fearless, cleanliness and free from Fear of failure. And externally controlled teachers
gave more importance to no work-family conflict. Pearson product moment correlation coefficient
suggests that in relation to goal oriented work values, internally controlled executives gave more
importance to self-empowerment and externally controlled executives gave more importance to peace.
On the other hand internally controlled teachers gave more importance to enlightenment and
externally controlled teachers gave more importance to salvation.
Niladri Dutta and D. Dutta Roy
Year wise Analysis of Public Expenditure of Three states in India
The present study analyses the public expenditure of three states in India. The objectives of the study
are: 1) to examine the public expenditure of three states namely West Bengal, Maharashtra, and
Orissa across years, 2) to examine State and Year wise association of public expenditure, and 3) to
examine year wise difference in association of public expenditure for each state. Sector and state wise
public expenditure data were initially collected from secondary and reliable sources. Initially average
expenditure of three states across the years was estimated. ANOVA with repeated measures reveals
significant main and interaction effects of state and years on public expenditure. Secondly, average
data were converted into rank data in ascending order. Spearman rank order correlation coefficient
was computed to find out state wise association of public expenditure across years. Next differences
between state correlation coefficient in each year were estimated. Results revealed that average
public expenditure from 1985-86 to 2006-07 of West Bengal were lowest in comparison with Orissa
and Maharashtra. From 1985-86 to 1990-91 average public expenditure was almost same for three
states, after 1990-91 average public expenditure of Orissa and Maharashtra was higher than that of
West Bengal. From 1985-86 to 1989-90 public expenditure of West Bengal was similar with
Maharashtra and Orissa. After 1990 public expenditure of West Bengal was more related to Orissa
and Maharashtra. After 1998-99 the relationship was gradually decreasing.
Sandip Nag and D. Dutta Roy
Sector wise Analysis of Public Expenditure of Three States of India
Analysis of Public Expenditure is an important problem in financial management. This helps to

understand attitude and motives of the Government of states in the planning. It gives ideas about the
areas where in more attention should be paid in near future. Analysis can be made in terms of year
wise and sector wise expenditure. The present study examined public expenditure of three states –
West Bengal, Maharashtra and Orissa in both year and sector wise data analysis. Eleven sectors as
Agricultural and Allied Activities, Rural Agricultural and Allied Activities, Energy Rural Development,
Special Acres Programmed, Irrigation and Food Control, Industry and Minerals Transport, Science,
Technology and Environment, General Economic Service, Social Service, General Service. Analysis
reveals that from 1986-2002, in comparison with Orissa and Maharashtra, West Bengal spent less
amount and Orissa spent more amount in all sectors. Results revealed inequality in public expenditure
of three states across years and sectors. West Bengal made lowest expenditure and Orissa made
highest expenditure. Expenditure of three states increased after 1996-97. In sector wise comparison,
Orissa made highest expenditure in Industry & Minerals sector in year 1990-91 to 1995-96. Orissa
made lowest expenditure in Science, Technology and Environment sector in year 1985-86 to 1994-
1995. In special area programmes West Bengal made highest expenditure in year 2001-02. West
Bengal made lowest expenditure in transport sector in year 1985-86 to 1995-96. In agricultural sector
each state follow same pattern of expenditure. Maharashtra made highest expenditure in Irrigation and
food control sector in year 1997-98 to 2001-02 and lowest expenditure in Industry and Minerals sector
in the year 1997-98 to 2001-02. The above findings gave insight about possible objectives of the
government in different states.
Priyaranjan Kumar Singh and D. Dutta Roy
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Sociological Research Unit
Research in the Unit during the year has encompassed a variety of topics under the broad rubric of
studies of agriculture and rural development. Specific studies were done on rural income inequality,
the role of market and non-market forms of discrimination and socio-economic exclusion in village
economies, and on crop incomes in different parts of India.
Special focus has been paid to evaluation of official statistics (such as on days of employment,
household amenities, rural indebtedness and crop incomes)
V. K Ramachandran, Madhura Swaminathan, Niladri Sekhar Dhar and Shamsher Singh
Research continues on gender segregation in the Indian factory sector

Based on data from the NSSO and ASI, issues of occupational segregation and gender gap in wages
are explored.
Molly Chattopadhyay and Sonali Chakraborty
Statistical Quality Control and Operations Research Division
The Division comprises of eight SQC & OR Units located at Bangalore, Chennai, Coimbatore, Delhi,
Hyderabad, Kolkata, Mumbai and Pune and the Central SQC (CSQC) Office located in the main
campus at Baranagore. The CSQC Office functions as the office of the elected Head of the Division
and co-ordinates various activities of the Division.
The activities of the division consist of consultancy and training, research with a focus on the applied
one, academic teaching including conducting M.Tech. (QROR) programme at Kolkata and Part-Time
Certificate course at Bangalore and Hyderabad. The faculty members of the division also teach in
other academic programmes like B.Stat. and M.Stat. Supervision of Ph.D. thesis along with the
dissertation and project work by M.Tech. (QROR) and M.Stat. students are another part of the
responsibilities discharged by the divisional members.
The activities of the Division under different headings are furnished in the following.
SQC and OR Unit, Bangalore
Designing and developing a methodology for controlling critical sub processes in software
development life cycle
As part of designing and developing a methodology for controlling critical sub processes in software
development life cycle to achieve software quality and reliability goals, a study on existing methods is
carried out. A model is developed to arrive at an optimum test stopping criterion based on software
reliability modelling and Taguchi methods, and tested at different information technology companies
around Bangalore. A model for estimating defect density of embedded system software using
Bayesian belief networks is developed and tested at different information technology companies
around Bangalore.
Boby John
Six Sigma Initiatives
The present research work deals with the identification of critical success factors both in
manufacturing and service sectors, which is important for a successful Six Sigma project and also
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evolving a methodology to measure the effectiveness of the project. A part of the research will be in
the direction improving process efficiency through measuring, identifying and isolating the unsafe
working environment. A paper titled “Prevention of Industrial Accidents Using Six Sigma Approach” is
sent for publication in the journal International Journal of Lean Six Sigma and is accepted.
Sanjit Ray
Model for Business Process Improvement through Statistical Techniques
Literature survey on the available methodology on process improvement was carried out to
understand the nature of applications and models already available in business process improvement.
So far, four articles got published and two got accepted for publication during this period of research.
E. V. Gijo
SQC and OR Unit, Chennai
Stochastic Games
We established computational complexity results for computing Nash Equilibria in Mixtures of

Stochastic Games.
G. Ravindran, T. Parthasarathy and K. Nagarajan
Game Theoretic Applications to Networks

G. Ravindran
Multiple Response Optimization for Dynamic Systems
In a dynamic system, the response variable depends on the input signal level set by the system. That
means, the target output varies depending on the different signal values set by the system. Finding an
optimal combination of input variables that will produce optimum output at all signal levels is a difficult
task. This problem becomes further complicated when the system has multiple response variables.
The response variables may be correlated with each other and can have contradictory objectives. We
are trying to develop a method in order to find a best combination of input variables that would result in
an optimal compromise of all response variables.
Surajit Pal
SQC and OR Unit, Coimbatore
Textile Sector
Studying the effect of Ringtraveller frequency of change on waste % in a cotton spinning mill
The mills spindle capacity is 52,080. The mill has 54 frames, producing from 40s to 80s yarn in 100%
cotton yarn. The Pneumafil Waste % (cotton as raw material become cotton waste instead of yarn)
was varying from 1.81% to 2.48% at the average of 2.15 % with the SD of 0.22% during the month of
February 2012 against the target level of 1.5 %. The waste% was reduced to the target level using
various statistical tools and optimizing process parameters and the reduction of Pneumafil waste was
achieved in many frames on 24x7 shifts working. The reduction of Pneumafil Waste% resulting in the
turn over loss of Rs. 220 per every kilo of finished yarn was incurred where as the waste realized was
only Rs. 30 per kilo as waste. The annual loss was estimated around Rs.4.5 Lakhs that was saved
after the implementation of Quality Improvement Six Sigma Program with the existing resources.
A. Rajagopal
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Reducing the failures while winding yarn on Autoconers in Textile spinning
The yarn in small packages from spinning is automatically wound on large packages of cones. The
yarn is cut when defect occurred more than the present level and is corrected automatically by cutting
and mending (splicing). It was noticed that about 2.0 alarms (failures) occurred for winding a package
of cone at a weight of 1.890Kgs. About 314 cones are wound on an average every day per machine,
resulting in 628 stoppages caused by the alarms. This was reduced to 1.5 alarms through industrial
experimentation. The non conformity was reduced from 87.34%to 78.90%. This resulted in Employees
satisfaction and customers’ satisfaction against the common belief that Imported Auto winding
Machines automatically takes care of Quality but the efficiency and effectiveness can be improved
only by statistical diagnosis and Improvement.
A. Rajagopal
Health Sector
Indentifying Critical Performance Parameters for NABH and “Patient Care” in Hospital
Environments
· Reducing the Nosocomial infection rate of intensive care unit in Multispecialty hospital.
· Increasing the conformance level of the key performance indicators in the hospital as per NABH
Standards towards zero defects.
· Improving the accountability of gloves after the process of sterilization in a Multispecialty hospital
through proper inventory management.
· Reducing the waiting time of customers for delivering the drugs in the pharmacy of Multispeciality
hospital.
The effect of Cornea Collagen cross linking – Riboflavin C3R procedure on the progressive
keratoconus eyes among 53 eyes were studied and submitted as a paper with the principal author
DR. Chitra Ramamurthy of Eye Foundations, Coimbatore, at American Society for Cornea and
Refractive Surgery – Annual Conference at Chicago in April 2012. A.Rajagopal provided necessary
statistical tools and enabled presentation material comparing the effect of the procedure before and
after treatment.
A. Rajagopal
Analysis of keratoconus eyes undergoing corneal collagen cross linking - Riboflavin procedure
The aim of this study was to evaluate the results of 53 eyes of 36 patients with progressive
keratoconus, undergoing collagen cross-linking (CXL) with Riboflavin and comparing the Improvement
before and after the Procedure. 36 patients with progressive keratoconus were included in this study.
The corneal thickness was assessed using both OCUSCAN (ultrasound pachymeter) and ORBSCAN
II (Bausch and Laumb). Astigmatic range for eyes included under this study ranged from 1D to 12D.
Corneal thickness of patients undergoing surgery ranged from 380 microns to 498 microns. The
corrected distance visual acuity (CDVA), topography and pachymetry were examined. An increase in
the maximum topographic K-value at the apex of keratoconus and a reduction in corneal thickness
with or without changes in visual acuity (VA) were considered in order to compare the significance of
before and after the procedure. Based on pre operative corrected distance visual acuity (CDVA), there
was gain in CDVA in 13 patients (25%), 33 patients(62%) maintained a stable refraction and in 7
patients there was loss of one to two lines in CDVA on snellen’s chart. The amount of corneal
flattening achieved ranged from 0.25D to 4D.There was a gain in mean corneal thickness ranging from
15 microns to 142 microns. Only 6 patients developed persistent mild corneal haze after 1 year of
follow up. 2 patients showed signs of progression. The statistical significance between relationships of
various parameters were assessed. The effect of cross linking procedure was evaluated using
parametric and non parametric methods.The results of this study showed a stability of keratoconus
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eyes after cornea cross linkage (C3R). There is conclusive data indicative of a decrease in the rate of
progression of keratoconus eyes after corneal collagen cross linking. The effects were significant that
age effect (before 18) and gender effect (for Males) were contributing reasons for minimizing risk due
to keratoconus eye disease.
A. Rajagopal
Software Sector
Increasing the Test Case Productivity in Test Design Process for a Leading Health Care
Projects in Software (MNC’s)
Leading US health Care business customers need to increase the Test Case Design Productivity in
EBIZ enhancement Project. The Test case Productivity is defined by the customers according to its
severity. The testing team could not design the test case as per the productivity expectation of the
customers. There were incidents of variation between the scheduled time to design and actual time to
design measured in terms of test case points, by Software Teams. The Test cases are prepared to
enable Processing of Clients’ Inputs. The testing team consists of 5 team members and during the
span of the last 6 months, 3283 test cases have been produced with the total effort of 1297 man
hours. The average productivity was 29 test cases per person per day as against 40 test cases per
person per day. This is due to the excess test cases being produced. This not only had affected the
efficiency of the testing team but also delayed the service time to customer for releasing the test
design. There would be a penalty clause for any delay in subsequent years. The Goal is enhancing the
revenue turn over, and therefore the productivity needs to be increased from the existing 3.7 to 5 Test
cases per person per hour. The pain of the problem is the stress to the “team lead” and to the team
members and over staying by the team members in order to complete the test design urgency. The
incompletion of assignment that may cause penalty in future, resulting in Poor customer relationship.
The variation between “Application”, and “Change Request” were identified using Statistical Principles
of both ANOVA and Pugh Matrix, with Prioritization of Effort hours by Resource Team. The Analysis
could identify the applications and the efforts required, for improvement. This could be focused and
controlled increasing the Productivity by 31.6 %.
A. Rajagopal
Reducing Resolution Time of Tickets in a Life Insurance Process
Reducing the Resolution time of Tickets in a Life Insurance process related to Production and
Business support operations using Statistical model and Six Sigma Approach. The Software company
business customers asked for early resolution of Ticket. Though the tickets are classified by the
customer according to Severity as agreed to supporting team and Customers, there were incidents of
variation between target time to fix and actual time to fix. In a period of one month it was found that
almost 63 % of tickets exceeded the target time to fix and the difference was as much as 32732 hours
for about 82 closed tickets in one month. The estimated time loss since the inception of contract
(period of 10 Months) was about 327310 hours causing a loss of Rs 392772 per annum. The average
ticket closing rate was 0.00106 tickets per hour or “Mean Time to Fix” (MTF) was 942 hours as against
the Target time of 120 hours even in the least severity level. This resulted in backlog of 24 tickets
noted during the period under study. This had not only affected the efficiency of supporting team but
also delayed the service time to customers. The supporting team has 5 members. The supporting
team and the customer were in the project for the last 10 months. Instead of reducing the Actual Time
to Fix, the target time itself was not met. The problem was frequented during the Month of May to
June and was found that the “mean time to fix the ticket” was very high when compared to target
specifications provided by the customer. The Objective was to reduce the excess time over Target
time from the existing 74.4% to below 50% within 3 months by reducing the Mean Time to fix of the
arrived Tickets from Business users. This will result in enhanced customer satisfaction. Using the
Statistical Tools of identifying the underlying distribution , predicting the percentile point and improving
the same using the Tools of Gemba Investigations, Stratifications, enabled to classify the Tickets more
Prudently in order to pragmatically fix the Problems and the results obtained were beneficial.
A. Rajagopal
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Infrastructure Sector (Power Plant Civil Work)
Achieving world class Specification in Compacting Characteristics in a Thermal Project for

“Ground Preparation “in Civil Works
The Critical Characteristics of the Soil filling is Compaction percentage, it is the base of Quality in land
filling site. In the Land filling, the minimum specification, for compacting should be 95 % on the
reference Lab Compacting of 100%, as per Standards. The Thermal Power joint venture plant with
BHEL and TNEB for 800 MW was proposed near Tuticorin. In the Thermal power project the critical
areas such as Lay down, Main Plant, and Store yard were taken for Ground Leveling, Filling and Sub
grading activities and the project was guided under ‘Project management’ by A.Rajagopal by the
approved Heavy civil works company. The project was completed on time without any rework and in
compliant to the compact standards of world class of 97%. This enabled to achieve 8 sigma world
class Standards. The project site could sustain the Torrential rain due to significant improvement by
identification of Soil Classification, Water Pouring Procedures, and Number of Rolling for
compactness. The achieved average and variation were remarkably improved. The Methodology of
achieving compactness received governmental appreciation from the Clients for carrying out “Quality
in Time”.
A. Rajagopal
SQC and OR Unit, Delhi
Mathematical Programming, Linear Complementarity Problem (LCP) and its generalizations,

Generalized Principal Pivot Transforms and its application in Game theory, Matrix Theory (Study of
Matrix Classes useful in Complementarity, Optimization and Game Theory), Non-cooperative games,
Algorithms for Stochastic Games.
S.K. Neogy
SQC and OR Unit, Hyderabad
Development of Optimization software tool for Information Technology Enabling Services
There are many industries like the Business Process Outsourcing companies or industries where the
operations involve receiving transaction requests from clients and addressing them within a stipulated
time. A common problem that is faced by these industries is that of planning and managing the
agents/associates who receive the calls and address them. It turns out that this problem is too
complex to handle without the aid of a software solution. A software tool that acts like decision support
systems (DSSs) will be very useful in tackling this problem but it appears that the industry is little
aware of the existence of DSSs or they may be too expensive to adapt. This work pertains to
Information Technology Enabling Services (ITES) industry where the management found it very
difficult to plan and manage effectively their human resources. Following a scientific approach, the
company's problem is formulated as mathematical programming problem with a minimax criteria for
the objective function. The problem is formulated as an integer-linear programming problem and a
software tool is developed to aid the management. The tool is Excel based, simple to use and can be
effectively deployed as a decision support system. The tool is applied to various projects using past
data to evaluate and compare different types of solutions. Based on the analysis, a useful metric is
proposed to assess the management decisions for managing the human resources. The primary
objective of this work is to promote business excellence through scientifically designed low cost
solutions for the industries related to BPO and ITES.
G.S.R. Murthy and K. Mahesh Giri
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Determining solutions to polypeptide decomposition
The project was undertaken at leading pharmaceutical company. It deals with determination of
frequencies of amino acids present in a polypeptide. Given the molecular weight of the polypeptide
and the molecular weights of the amino acids, the problems is to list determine all possible
combinations of frequencies of the amino acids and check whether for a given polypeptide molecular
weight, the solution is unique. The problem is solved by formulating it as a integer-linear programming
problem. The approach to addressing this problem has lead to some interesting ideas. New
formulations are devised to determine the uniqueness and to obtain multiple solutions when the
solution is not unique. It is pointed that the ideas could be extended to general problems. Also, simple
solution is provided for checking the uniqueness of solutions.
G.S.R. Murthy
Some contributions to the development of Lean Six Sigma Methodology in service industries
with a special reference to application of Generalized Gaussian Distribution
This applied survey based research is planned to involve an extensive literature review followed by
carefully designed surveys to understand the existing usage of statistical methods in Six Sigma, Lean
methodologies and also careful analysis of the need in the industry across different sectors mainly the
service sector which are becoming the sectors of major attention. Human dominated processes, lack
of suitable measurable characteristics, inherent heterogeneity in the elements and process/product
performance governed by time/schedules will be some of the major challenges of this applied research
work. As the service industry process measures (CTQs) exhibit different distribution, by default or by
design, there is a need to explore the scope of use of generalized distributions such as Generalized
Gaussian Distribution which has the potential to characterize the behaviour demonstrated by these
CTQs. The applicability and benefits of the developed methodology are planned to be tried and tested
on sample industries as case studies. Development of the statistical methodologies along with the
approach for adoption/implementation will be developed so that maximum benefits can be reaped.
G. Murali Rao
Some contributions towards development of robust analytics for effective & efficient Text
Mining - G MuraliRao, SQC & OR Unit, Hyderabad
In this research an attempt is made to develop robust analytics with the simple yet powerful data
based and statistical methods to mine unstructured data primarily in the form of text. Aggressive use of
Information and Communication technology in almost every walk of life has resulted in creation,
storage and availability of data in the form of text in abundance, in addition to the regular numerical
data. Nearly eighty percent of the data storage in a given organizations or institutions is in the form of
text data and most of it is in the soft form. Interestingly these mammoth text data bases contain the
critical and sensitive information but always hidden or camouflaged within a large chunk of not so
relevant ones. As a result of extensive research in the past on numerical data mining methodologies,
comprehensive and structured approaches with proven techniques are already available for real life
applications. But as far as text data is concerned due to its textual and unstructured format, its
scientific analysis has become a big challenge at the same time great opportunity to test the
applicability of the existing data mining methodologies as well as researching to develop newer
methods. There is also a need for adopting a structured or process based approach along with the use
of appropriate tools and techniques while dealing with the text data due to the statutory, security and
legal requirements. The objective is to develop analytics which can sieve and synthesize the text data
bases in the most effective and efficient manner for extracting the most relevant information.
G. Murali Rao
Theoretical Research Work
This work pertains the linear complementarity problem and attempts to address a conjecture raised by
Stone which states that the class of fully semimonotone matrices within the class of Qo-matrices have
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all their principal minors positive. This problem is connected to solvability of the linear complementarity
problems. In this work we try to use a concept called the incidence and try to make use of the same to
settle the conjecture. In the sequel, a new conjecture is stated. Also, a new and useful result regarding
the Qo-matrices is derived. It turns out that this result is very useful in checking the Qo-property of
matrices.
G.S.R. Murthy, T. Parthasarathy and R. Sridhar
SQC and OR Unit, Kolkata
Algorithm for mathematical programming problems with Hanson function
The class of invex functions is precisely the class of differentiable functions whose stationary points
are global minimizers. We extend some of the important results obtained by Hanson and Martin to
constrained minimization problems. An algorithm for solving mathematical programming problem
involving Hanson functions is developed.
Arup Kumar Das
On a subclass of (H-Φ)-convex function and its properties
In this study, we introduce ώ-preinvex and ώ-invex functions, generalizations of convex function and
prove some results. All these generalizations are viewed as a subclass of (H-Φ)-convex functions in
specialized form. These functions and their characterization are very important not only for solving
optimization problems but also mathematical modelling of system in applied science.
Arup Kumar Das
Generalized convex function under differentiability
Many generalizations of convex functions have been appeared in the literature such as invex function,
preinvex function, b-vex function, b-preinvex function, (α, λ) convex function etc. The purpose of this
study is to investigate the relationship among such generalizations under differentiability.
Arup Kumar Das
On weak generalized positive subdefinite matrices and its properties
In this study, we introduce a weaker version of the class of generalized positive subdefinite matrices
introduced by Crouzeix and Komlosi and obtain some properties on weak generalized positive
subdefinite (WGPSBD) matrices. We show that this weaker class of matrices is also captured by row
sufficient matrices introduced by Cottle et al. and show that for WGPSBD matrices under appropriate
assumptions, the solution set of a linear complementarity problem is same as the set of Karush-Kuhn-
Tucker (KKT)-stationary points of the corresponding quadratic programming problem.
Arup Kumar Das
Some aspects on solving a transportation problem
We revisit some transportation problems which arise in sample surveys and other areas of statistics.
The associated cost matrices of these transportation problems are of special structure. In these
applications, due to special structural property of the cost matrix, North West corner solution produces
an optimal solution. We revisit some of these results. A weighted version of Konig-Egervary theorem
and Hungarian method are also presented. This will be useful to obtain an instant solution in many
applications of the transportation problem.
Arup Kumar Das
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Study on Some Implementation Issues of TQM in Higher Education and Other Service Sectors
and Gap Analysis by Lean Management
Guidance has been provided to Mr. Debaprayag Chaudhuri for Ph.D. in Engineering at Jadavpur
University. He will submit his thesis in this year (2011). The scope of this work primarily centers on
evaluation of degree engineering colleges in West Bengal. Weak areas have been identified,
benchmarking has been done and corrective measures have been suggested to attain the benchmark.
In addition, a few financial institutions have been evaluated with regard to TQM implementation that
helped to build up appropriate model to provide faster and better service to the customer.
Arup Ranjan Mukhopadhyay
Impact of Noise Quality due to Highway and Related Infrastructure Development: A Case Study
of Construction of Second Vivekananda Bridge and Its New Approach Road
Guidance is being provided to Mr. Tarun Roy on the above topic for Ph.D. in Engineering at Jadavpur
University. In particular, empirical data based studies have been carried out on honking and its
influence on noise pollution and assessment of noise environment during construction of the Second
Vivekananda Bridge and its new approach roads. The studies have dealt with extensively the
measures of noise pollution in terms of equivalent sound energy level (Leq) as well as the noisiest
situation that has been termed as L10.
Study on Some Challenging Issues in Implementing Lean Six Sigma
Guidance is being provided to Mr. Ashok Sarkar, Technical Officer (Gr. I) who works at the SQC & OR
Unit, Mumbai, Indian Statistical Institute, for Ph.D. in Engineering at Jadavpur University. This work is
primarily concerned with improvement of service quality by appropriately identifying and reducing non-
value adding activities, waste, work-in-progress inventory level etc. to build up appropriate process
modeling and measures in Lean Six Sigma.
Two new process capability indices for circular tolerance region are developed and their
properties are being studied
Failure rate curve with multiple change points is a relatively new area of research. We develop a
multiple change point model and applied it to some real life data. It is shown that multiple change point
model gives a better fit to the data, indicating that there were actually more than two change points in
the process.
Ashis Kumar Chakraborty
Optimum hybrid censoring scheme
Determination of optimum hybrid censoring scheme is an important practical issue in designing a life
testing experiment. In this work a new optimality criterion is proposed to obtain the optimum life testing
plan. The minimum cost associated with the experiment is considered as optimality criteria for
determining the optimal censoring schemes. The proposed cost model is scale invariant for some
specific life distributions. The optimum values of the decision parameters are obtained under different
lifetime distributions. Determination of optimum scheme by Bayesian method is in progress.
Biswabrata Pradhan, Ritwik Bhattacharya and Anup dewanji
Nonparametric estimation of quality adjusted lifetime distribution in dependent model
A nonparametric estimate of QAL distribution in a three-state illness-death model when sojourn times
in illness state and healthy state are dependent has been proposed. Three dependent models have
been considered to describe the dependence between sojourn times in illness state and healthy state.
In the proposed approach, the theoretical expression of the QAL distribution in terms of joint
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distribution of different health states under a specific dependent model has been derived. The estimate
of the QAL distribution has been obtained by substituting the estimate of the joint distribution in the
expression of the QAL distribution. The study of asymptotic properties of the proposed estimator is in
progress.
Biswabrata Pradhan, Anup Dewanji and Alok Goswami
Optimum progressive censoring scheme
This work considers progressively Type-II censored data when lifetime follows Birnbaum-Saunders
distribution. The aim of this work is to determine optimum progressive censoring scheme. Different
optimality criteria are proposed to find the optimum censoring scheme. It is observed that finding the
optimum censoring scheme is a discrete optimization problem and it is quite a computer intensive
process. Hence some sub-optimal censoring schemes are proposed, and they can be obtained quite
easily. The performances of the sub-optimal censoring schemes are compared with the optimal ones,
and loss of information is quite insignificant.
Biswabrata Pradhan and Debasis Kundu
Inference for order statistic models with unknown population size
This work considers Bayes estimation of unknown population size N based on type-I censored data.
The inference is made for the exponential, Weibull, generalized exponential and generalized Rayleigh
order statistic models. It is observed that Bayes estimate cannot be obtained in closed form. Markov
Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) techniques are used to compute Bayes estimates. Highest posterior
density (HPD) intervals of estimates are also obtained based on MCMC samples. The performance of
the estimator is judged via simulation. Bayes factor is computed for the purpose of model comparison.
Application of proposed methodology is illustrated using one real life dataset. Determination of
optimum stopping time is in progress.
Biswabrata Pradhan, Aniket Jain and Debasis Kundu
My research activity during this period includes evaluating the performance of control charts using
different generalized family of distributions for handling non-normal data. The use of univariate g and h
distribution has been explored and its performance is compared with the control chart using exact
probability limits. The use of generalized lambda distributions in developing control charts has been
studied. An easier approach to evaluate process capability indices using univariate g and h
distribution has also been proposed for non- normal process. This idea has been extended for
multivariate case and developed a new multivariate PCI using multivariate g and h distribution. Some
alternatives of S chart based on some robust estimate of scale parameters has been developed which
is found to be more efficient than usual S chart under non-normal situation. A robust control chart for
controlling location parameter was devised using some robust estimate of scale parameter. The
application of SPC techniques in maintenance engineering viz. monitoring failure time of different
machines is also been explored. A suitable control chart is designed to monitor the time between
failure data assuming Weibull distribution and illustrated with a set of practical data. In the field of data
mining, a modified algorithm based on frequent pattern growth is developed to find the important (or,
frequent) relations from the set of consumer survey data in a retail chain.
Nandini Das
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Library, Documentation and Information Sciences Division
The Library, Documentation and Information Science Division comprises

· Central Library, Kolkata
· ISI Delhi Centre Library, Delhi
· ISI Bangalore Centre Library, Bangalore
· ISI Chennai Centre Library, Chennai
· ISI North-East Centre Library, Tezpur
· Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis Memorial Museum and Archives, Kolkata
The Division is perhaps the most important central facility of the Institute.
Central Library, Kolkata
The Central Library occupies a unique place in academic and research activities of the Institute. The
Central Library moved to its present location in 1978, and it occupies 4 floors (56000sq.ft) of a ten-
storied building at Calcutta. The Central Library seeks to:
· Meet the informational, educational, recreational, and cultural interests and needs of the user
community by providing timely access to print and non-print resources appropriate to those
needs.
· Encourage and facilitate reading, literacy and lifelong learning by supplying resources in a
variety of formats designed to interest, inform, and enlighten.
· Protect the public's right to know by providing equal access to information needed for informed
and effective daily living, decision making, problem solving and thoughtful participation in
civic/community affairs.
· Provide the highest quality service and to organize and display the collection for easy, open
access by all.
· Maintain publication exchange programme of the Institute with regional, international, national,
and foreign institutions and organizations.
· Continue to function as the Eastern Regional Library of the National Board of Higher
Mathematics [NBHM], Department of Atomic Energy, Government of India since 1989.
Over the years, the ISI Central Library has attained the distinction of being one of the richest
libraries in India in the areas of mathematics, statistics, economics, theoretical computer science and
related areas. To achieve the goals of the Library, following activities were undertaken during the year
under report:
Collection Development:
The Library maintains an excellent collection of books, journals, reports, rare and special collection,
government publications, data-books, theses and other documents/ materials in print and electronic
formats. During the year under report, the library accessioned 1265 books while 121 books were
received on complimentary basis. Added 15 book to the project collection. The Library also
accessioned 1288 bound volumes of journals and subscribed to 540 scholarly journal titles in print.
More than 52 journal titles were received as complimentary and 97 titles in exchange with Sankhya.
The library received and processed more than 11000 loose issues of journals. It classified and
catalogued 1040 new books and filed 4260 computer printed catalogue cards. It also processed 150
titles on government reports/data-books etc. 212 government reports has been added. Beside this, the
library has added a collection of 188 books, mainly in English, Bengali and Hindi on literature,
humanities, travel, health and recreation in its Statistical Workers’ Circulating Library totaling its
collection to 38833. In addition to this, the library has about 32000 reprints. Around 450 ebooks were
added to the collection.
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E-Resources:
The library has a good collection of electronic resources on different media and has access to several
online journals/databases. During the year under report, the library has added approximately 600
ebooks, 54 CDs & floppies containing books and CDs on statistical data. Thus, the total collection of
CDs has risen to 1007. The library has provided the online access to about 2500+ full-text journals. It
has renewed the online database like MathSciNet, ScienceDirect, Springer Link through consortia. It
has also subscribed to the IEL online of the IEEE/IEE publications, ACM Digital Library and Current
Index to Statistics (CIS) on Web. The library has also subscribed to few statistical data sources
available on CDs.
Publications Exchange Programme:

The library has a good collection of electronic resources on different media and has access to several
online journals/databases. During the year under report, the library has added approximately 600
ebooks, 54 CDs & floppies containing books and CDs on statistical data. Thus, the total collection of
CDs has risen to 1007. The library has provided the online access to about 2500+ full-text journals. It
has renewed the online database like MathSciNet, ScienceDirect, Springer Link through consortia. It
has also subscribed to the IEL online of the IEEE/IEE publications, ACM Digital Library and Current
Index to Statistics (CIS) on Web. The library has also subscribed to few statistical data sources
available on CDs.
Membership:
Membership of the ISI-Library is restricted to persons with post-graduate or equivalent academic
qualification, interested in the objectives of the Institute. Faculty members, research scholars,
students, research associates, visiting scientists, ISEC trainees, project-linked staff, project assistants,
ISI-employees, outside students and the Institute members are eligible for the membership of the
Institute Library. However, they have to apply for the membership of the library and receive a bar-
coded Library Card. During this period, library membership was given to 325 persons and 970 readers
were given special permission to use the library for a short period. Currently the total number of library
member rose to 3570. Total number of members including staff, students and research scholars of the
Institute rose to 960 in its workers’ circulating library.
Services:
The ISI-Library, since its inception has been providing a variety of library and information services to
its users. The services presently being provided include;
Web-OPAC: Members use this facility to browse and search the database to see the status of a
document including their own transactions.
Circulation/Document Delivery Service: 150450 books and other documents were issued to the user
on loan and reference. Publications from Government of India and other International Organization
and data CDs, were issued to users for reference purpose. Reprints of 2500 pages and ecopy of1403
pages from different full text database were supplied during this period. It provided email-based
reminder services like 7-day advance alert, long overdue notice and check-in information. 18000
books from the workers’ circulating library were issued for lending and reference during this period.
Inter-library loan: 56 Books and journals were borrowed from other libraries, while 117 books and
journals were lent to other libraries.
Current Awareness Service: 12 monthly lists of current additions to the library were made available
online.
Self-Photocopying Service: The library provided the Self-photocopying service in its periodical section,
which was available everyday throughout the library hours. During this period 10000 pages were
photocopied from the journals.
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Electronic Document Delivery Service: Full-text articles and/or bibliographical data were provided
through email from online resources. Besides electronic document delivery, 3000 pages of printouts
were also supplied against demand.
Online Full-Text Access to Journals/ Database: During the period under review, the library has
provided services from more than 2500+ online journals and major databases like MathSciNet, Econlit,
ScienceDirect, Springer Link, IEL Online (IEEE/IEE Electronic Library), ACM Digital Library, CIS on
WEB, OUP journal online consortia: JSYOR ( Life science). The online access is available through
campus-wide network.
Reprographic & Photographic Service: During the year, it provided around 449863 pages of
photocopies, 587 graphic designs, 787 scanned items, 60000+ pages of color and b/w pages of print
outs, 6167 pages of color photocopies, and 980 spiral bindings. 735 pages were laminated.
Documentation Service: A searchable bibliographic database has been prepared on scientific

contributions made by the ISI scientists on all subject fields since 1934. The entries are currently being
subjected to editing.
General Enquiry Assistance & Consultation Service: Assistance extended to 200 external visitors
including participants of the Winter School, NBHM Nurture Programme, Summer Research School
and visiting students of different institutions.
Digitization: 45 books were digitized. 18305 frames of microfilm/fiche were digitized. These will be
made available on the Web after the completion of the work.
Special Initiatives:
Consortia arrangements: During the reporting year, the Library has further strengthened the consortia
initiative to enhance the electronic collection and online access to scholarly resources to cope up with
the increasing subscription cost and diminishing budget.
Preservation and conservation: Completed binding of more than 1000 physical volumes of journals.
Lamination and de-acidification of 8 rare books of 2000 pages were completed, fumigated 120 books,
and photocopied rare and out-of-print books.
Institutional Repository (IR): A prototype of IR of ISI has been created. Currently it covers scientific
writings of Professor P.C. Mahalanobis, full-text of 3000+ ISI research papers, full text of all
convocation addresses, ISI Annual Report from 1933 to 2008 and 100 Ph.D thesis.
Exhibition:
The Central Library organized an Exhibition on Rabindranath and Prasanta Chandra: an eternal tie,
29th June Library, Documentation & Information Division, Kolkata, 29 June 2011 – 28th July 2011.
Library, Delhi
Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi Centre, maintains an academic library, which aims to be a leading
library in the fields of Economics, Mathematics, Statistics, Operations Research and Statistical Quality
Control. The library caters mainly to the needs of bonafide students, scholars and staff of the Institute.
However, it is also open for reference to academic and research users of other educational and
scientific institutions of the city and its neighboring regions.
It is an automated library with an extensive collection of books, journals, CDs, reports, govt.
publications and other documents in print and electronic formats. Some of the main activities of the
library during the period under review were as under:
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Collection Development
Books:
The library purchased 157 books, during the period April 01, 2011 to March 31, 2012 both from the
regular ISI and NBHM funds. Received 88 books as gift. Thus raising the stock to 48816 volumes
(Books + Journals).
Journals:
During the period under review 200 titles of journals, both foreign as well as Indian have been
renewed. 23 journals on gratis and 10 journals in exchange are being received in the library from
various sources. Over 820 journals are accessible online due to consortia based subscription initiated
by Delhi Centre Library.
Online Resources:
“EconLit”, “SIAM Academic Membership”, “Current Index to Statistics”, have been renewed.
Consortia Based Subscription:

During the period under review, following Consortia based online subscription have been renewed:
· ScienceDirect (Consortia of three ISI’s) Kolkata, Delhi and Bangalore with full text Elsevier
Science group journals from year 1995.
· SpringerLink (Consortia of three ISI’s) for Springer Group journals from year 1997.
· J-STOR (Consortia of three ISI’s) for 184 full text back volumes from Volume 1 onwards.
· Oxford University Press Online Journals (Consortia of three ISI’s) for 54 full text journals from
year 1996.
· MathSciNet (AMS) (Consortia of 22 institutions including three ISIs: Kolkata, Delhi and
Bangalore) containing Bibliographic data and reviews from year 1940.
Exchange Program:
Exchange program established with seven scientific institutions in the regions of China, Korea,
Netherlands, Poland, Spain and Vietnam for getting their publications in exchange to our journal
‘Sankhya’- Indian Journal of Statistics and “Texts and Readings in Mathematics” (book series).
Services:
Circulation Services: During the period April 1st 2011 to March 31, 2012, 141 members, availed the
lending facilities as permanent members of the library, whereas 279 members availed reference
facilities of the library. More than 4200 publications have been circulated among the members.
Reprographic Services: During the period April 1, 2011 to March 30, 2012, more than 17400 pages
have been Xeroxed and made available to users of the library and outsiders. Xerox facilities were also
provided to 200 research scholars of neighbouring Institutes under NBHM programme.
Electronic Document Delivery Service: In addition to Xerox facilities, 350 Full texts articles (PDF files)
were provided through email from Online journals/databases under NBHM programme.
Current Awareness Service: The following lists were brought out regularly from the library:
(i) Monthly list of current periodicals (Online) (ii) New additions (books) Online
Brought out “Current Contents of Journals”, by photocopying the contents page of each journal
received at ISI, Delhi Centre library, during a specified period and distributed to 33 departments of
Statistics and Mathematics of universities and institutions in the Northern region under NBHM
programme.
Library WEBOPAC (Books):

The users have been given access to the complete Catalogue of the holdings through CATALOGUE-
OPAC. A Web search engine has been provided in the library Home page.
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LIBSYS- OPAC:
The internal user can use LIBSYS OPAC for the access of Catalogue by Author, Title and Publisher,
which is only available in the campus LAN.
Journals Access from Outside ISI Delhi Campus:

Link has been provided to access the full text of journals from outside ISI Delhi. Outside user can
access full text by using Username and Password, available with Library Staff.
Library Internship:
Two Library Trainees with were appointed for a period of ten months to undergo training in the
practical aspects.
Library, Bangalore
Indian Statistical Institute Bangalore Centre Library is aiming to be identified as a model Library in the
Indian Academic scenario. The Library is providing many modern Library Services using Internet and
they are popularly known as Web based Information Services. Bangalore Centre Library has initiated
applications were in users are made more interactive. The Library has developed a very distinguished
collection in different knowledge domains namely Mathematics, Statistics, Economics, Quality Control
and Operation Research, and Library and Information Science. Neural networks, Spatial Data Analysis
and Communication Networks are some of the latest additions. Various services are designed to meet
the Information needs of the Faculty members, Students, Research Scholars and Visiting Scientists.
Walk-in users from other Research Institutes and Universities are also permitted to use the reading
facility of the Library.
In order to cater to the requirements of the Users, the Bangalore Centre Library has extended its
working hours from 5.45 PM to 7.45 PM on Week Days and on Saturdays from 9.30 AM to 5.30 PM,
with effect from 01/12/2011.
The following activities were undertaken/and is being undertaken by the Library to achieve the aim
during the period April 2011 – March 2012.
In order to meet the Collection development needs, books were displayed on approval basis at regular
intervals in the Library for procurement, from various publishers. A BOOK EXHIBITION was held
during end January, 2012 at ISIBC Library.
The Library purchased 548 books during this period of report, and thus amounting to a total of 21,131
accessioned books in the Library. The Library received 88 gratis books as complimentary. The total
books accessioned on gratis are 2,226. The Library subscribed to 317 journals, 13 journals were
subscribed from NBHM grants. Additionally Library has subscribed to “IEL ONLINE” which gives
access to journals and technical reports published by IEEE. During this period 20 bound volumes were
added to the shelf and thereby leading to 15,597 bound volumes in the Library. The Library has 39 E-
Books from World Scientific Publishing.
Technical Processing:
Total number of books classified and catalogued during this period is 636.
Membership:
115 Registered users enjoyed the Library facilities and the services. Also these facilities were
extended to 950 walk-in users during this period.
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Services:
Current Content Service: Content pages of around 650 loose issues (Subscribed Journals) have been
scanned to provide this service at ISIBC.
Circulation Service: Around 5,000 books and 250 bound volumes of journals were circulated during
this period, 800 loose issues of journals were issued to overnight to users.
Inter-Library Loan Service: ISI Bangalore Centre Library has been identified as one of the best
libraries in the select fields of study. As a result and also due to good liaison amongst the local
libraries, the Library has been involving itself in providing Inter-Library Loan service. Library has
attended to 120 ILL requests. The Library has borrowed 25 books from the other research libraries on
ILL.
Document Delivery Service: Under this service around 90 documents in pdf format were downloaded
and supplied to the registered users from e-versions of the journals.
Reprographic Service: During this period 83,722 Xerox copies were supplied to the Library users.
Web Based Library Services:

The Library has devised various services using World Wide Web. They are all accessible at
http://www.isibang.ac.in/library . As a result of these services the library users have access to 450 Full-
text online journals. During January 2012, access was given to Econolit with two other databases
LISTA and Greenfile. Most of them are made accessible on account of ISI Consortia. The Library also
provides access to various A&I services such as LISA, LISTA, MathScinet, Current Index to Statistics.
A virtual Library in Mathematics has been designed for the benefit of the users. Additionally, Library
has enumerated lists of Open Access journals in Mathematics & Statistics (120 titles); Library &
Information Science (69 titles); Economics (89 titles); SQC (25 titles) and SSIU (14 titles). Further,
ISIBC Library has finished processing the order for subscribing Lecture Notes in Mathematics (LNM)
series of books with backfiles, which will be accessible from 1st April, 2012. They are all made
accessible through the Library Portal.
Library, Tezpur
Indian Statistical Institute North-East Centre at Tezpur maintains an academic library, which aims to be
a leading library in the fields of statistics and mathematics. It started functioning in mid 2011. The
library caters mainly to the needs of students, scholars and faculty members of the Institute. During
this period, it has added 474 books, 12 journals, 4 newspapers and 2 magazines. It has more than 300
circulations. Automation of library has been initiated.
intervals in the Library for procurement, from various publishers. The Library purchased 474 books
during this period of report. The Library subscribed to 12 journals, 4 newspapers and 2 magazines.
Technical Processing:
Total number of books classified and catalogued during this period was 474.
Membership:
The library caters mainly to the needs of students, scholars and faculty members of the Institute. Total
number of members is 10.
Services:
Circulation Service: Around 300 books and other materials were circulated during this period.
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Inter-Library Loan Services: Received number of books from Central Library, Kolkata on inter library
loan Kolkata. To meet the immediate needs of the students and faculty members, this library took
corporate membership of Tezpur University Library.

It has online access to more than 2000 e-journals. They are all accessible at
http://www.isical.ac.in/~library/ajournals.html. Most of them were made accessible on account of ISI
Consortia.
Library, Chennai
Indian Statistical Institute Chennai Centre is an academic library in mid 2011, which aims to be a
leading library in the fields of statistics, SQC & OR and mathematics. It started functioning in mid 2011.
The library caters mainly to the needs of students, scholars and faculty members of the Institute.
intervals in the Library for procurement, from various publishers. The Library purchased certain books
during this period of report.
Membership:
The library caters mainly to the needs of students, scholars and faculty members of the Institute. Total
number of members is 10.
Services:
Circulation Service: Around 150 books and other materials were circulated during this period.
Inter-Library Loan Service: Received number of books from Central Library, Kolkata and ISI Bangalore
Centre Library on inter library loan Kolkata to meet the immediate needs of the students and faculty
members.

It has remote online access to more than ejourn 2000 ejournals. They are all accessible at
http://www.isical.ac.in/~library/ajournals.html. Most of them were made accessible on account of ISI
Consortia.
Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis Memorial Museum and Archives
The Museum and Archives carried out regular up keeping programme for 752 exhibits through 91
panels and a collection of artifacts related to Professor Mahalanobis displayed in the ground floor,
chatal, and Professor’s residence along with the pest control programme for the whole building of
Amrapali. Among other programme, it had taken up the work of restoration of old film rolls, audio
spools etc. through CD conversion (4 CD for 3 nos. of audio spools & 5 CD for 4 nos. film roll &
documentary), scanning of archival documents (4,000 nos. of document). Computerized fire alarm and
display security system has been installed in the museum. The on going project on ‘Processing of
documents from the personal collection of P.C.Mahalanobis’ with two year duration has been
completed. In this project emphasis had been given on sorting, collating and indexing of the
documents related with scientific and administrative work of Professor Mahalanobis. Three thousand
documents had been technically processed and five thousand documents had been edited.
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The Eminent persons and scientists, students from school, college and university were among the
other visitors of the museum. Scholars and researchers from different field consulted our archival
collection for reference.
The archival data-base had been up graded by developing and implementing XML data definition in
the existing software. The display quality & technique of the exhibits has been enhanced to maintain
the standard of display. Conservation of 5,000 archival documents had been carried out. Wireless
networking system for a single work place had been provided.
Center for Soft Computing Research: A National Facility
Moving Object Segmentation & Tracking Video Summarization
Putting only the necessary information in a compact representation, a video summary helps in easier
perception of the video. It relives the burden of processing huge chunk of audio-visual information. As
consequence, automated indexing and browsing through large collection of video data has become
ess expensive. Surveillance systems have been benefited from invention of these summarization
techniques. Therefore automated video summarization has become an active research area since last
two decades. Identification of necessary or significant content of a video is a major challenge to
generate a good summary. A systematic review is made where various summarization techniques
stand in terms of utilizing the knowledge about significance. Knowledge driven identification of
significant content is discussed in this context. Several techniques are also presented which manage
to produce a summary despite being deprived of knowledge about significant content. Moreover,
relevance of all these techniques in surveillance application is mentioned.
R. Pal, A. Ghosh and S.K. Pal
In Compressed Domain (H.264/AVC bitstream)
Object detection and tracking techniques can be categorized into spatial domain approach and
compressed domain approach. The spatial domain approach utilizes original pixel data which are
perfectly decoded from compressed bitstreams such as MPEG videos. On the other hand, the
compressed domain approach exploits the encoded information like motion vectors, DCT coefficients
and macroblock types which are extracted in a compressed bitstream. Traditionally, the main
researches on object detection and tracking have been concentrated on the spatial domain approach
since it has the capability of object tracking by using computer vision technologies. However, the
spatial domain approach takes long time to perform object detection and tracking even though it
detects and tracks any object precisely. Based on the compressed domain approach, our work is
aimed at reducing the computational complexity of object detection/tracking while maintaining the
precision comparable to that of the pixel domain algorithms.
B. Dey and M.K. Kundu
Using Rough Sets
Moving object detection and tracking from video sequences have been an important task in computer
vision. There are several approaches to solve it, e.g. based on some prior knowledge, based on
background estimation. We have performed the task without having any prior knowledge; the object
has been estimated here rather estimating the background. In this approach, we have used the feature
reduction concept of rough set theory. Till now, the problem has been solved for single object and still
camera. More complicated cases will be considered in future
D. Chakraborty and S.K. Pal
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Granulation and Natural Computing Granular Neural Networks for Pattern Recognition and
Mining
The task to be focused here is to describe and define information granules, which can assist in
improving performance of pattern recognition techniques when the granules are integrated with either
existing neural networks or newly proposed neural networks. We are currently working in developing
information granules using the concept of fuzzy sets, fuzzy rough sets, and thereby integrating the
granules into neural works which can be used for classification, clustering, feature selection, etc. New
fuzzy rough granular neural networks for classification has been proposed based on multilayer
perceptron for superior performance with wide application domain.
A. Ganivada and S.K. Pal
Fuzzy Rough Granular Self Organizing Map
In this work, we propose a network, called fuzzy rough granular self organizing map (FRGSOM), by
integrating fuzzy sets, fuzzy rough sets and the self-organizing map (SOM), where two facets of
natural computation, viz, granulation and self organization are integrated. While, fuzzy sets are used to
develop linguistic input vectors or information granules, fuzzy rough sets are used to extract the crude
domain knowledge about data in the form of dependency factors. These factors are assigned as the
initial connection weights of the proposed FRGSOM, and then the network is trained through a
competitive learning. The effectiveness of the FRGSOM is demonstrated on different real life data
sets.
A. Ganivada, S.S. Ray and S.K. Pal
Rough-fuzzy and Hybrid Image Processing
Generalized rough sets using fuzziness in granules as well as in sets are defined both for equivalence
and tolerance relations. The integration provides a stronger paradigm for uncertainty analysis. These
are followed by different rough-fuzzy entropy definitions. Rough-fuzzy image ambiguity takes care of
fuzziness in region boundaries as well as the rough resemblance in pixels and rough resemblance in
gray levels. Significance of rough granulation in measuring image ambiguity, and the merits of
generalization in rough sets are demonstrated for segmentation problem, as an example.
A density modification technique for improving feature space based image segmentation is described.
It embeds a position-dependent property associated with each sample in feature space of an image
into the corresponding density map; thereby modifying it. The property association and embedding
operations are implemented with a fuzzy set theory based system, devised with cues from beam
theory of solid mechanics.
D. Sen and S. K. Pal
Remote Sensing Image Analysis Hyper Spectral Image Processing
Hyper spectral sensors acquire a set of images from hundreds of narrow and contiguous bands of
electromagnetic spectrum from visible to infrared regions. The computational complexity is very high
for classification of hyper spectral images due to the presence of large number of bands. In such a
scenario, feature selection is very essential technique for reducing the dimensionality. An attempt has
been made to develop a feature selection technique based on evolutionary approach. Self-adaptive
differential evolution (SADE) is used for searching feature subset. In SADE, the parameter values
adapt themselves with generation to generation. Proposed method follows wrapper model for subset
evaluation. Fuzzy k-NN classifier is incorporated to calculate the classification accuracy which is used
as evaluation criterion. The proposed methodology also includes a feature estimating technique, called
ReliefF method, for removing the redundant features.
A. Datta and A. Ghosh
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Change Detection in Remotely Sensed Images
A change detection technique using semi-supervised Hopfield-Type Neural Network (HTNN) has been
developed. The purpose of the work is to show the usefulness of semi-supervision over existing
unsupervised/fully supervised methods when we have only a few labeled samples. Here, training of
HTNN is performed iteratively using a few labeled patterns along with a number of unlabeled patterns.
A method has been suggested to propagate the label information using a kind of K-nearest neighbor
approach. To check the effectiveness of the proposed method, experiments are carried out on multi-
temporal remotely sensed images. Results are compared with other state of the art techniques and
found to be significantly better.
A. Ghosh
Supervised and Unsupervised Landuse Map Generation from Remotely Sensed Images Using
ant Based Systems
The landuse or land-cover map depicts the physical coverage of the Earth’s terrestrial surface
according to its use. Landuse map generation from remotely sensed images is one of the challenging
tasks of remote sensing technology. Motivated from group forming behavior of real ants, we have
proposed two novel ant based (one supervised and one unsupervised) algorithms to automatically
generate landuse map from multispectral remotely sensed images. Here supervised landuse map
generation is treated as a classification task which requires some labeled patterns/pixels beforehand,
whereas the unsupervised landuse map generation is treated as a clustering based image
segmentation problem in the multispectral space. Investigations are carried out on four remotely
sensed image data. Experimental results of the proposed algorithms are compared with corresponding
popular state of the art techniques using various evaluation measures.
A. Haldar and A. Ghosh
Multi-objective Genetic Algorithms, Stopping Time and Convergence
Established theoretically the variance of best fitness function values obtained over the iterations as a
stopping criterion for single objective GA with elitist model that is modeled as Markov chain. Then, this
concept is extended to multi-objective GAs, where variance of the merit function values (defined over
the objective function values) is considered as the basis of the stopping criterion. The said stopping
criterion of MOGA can be applied for obtaining solutions for various problems. We have, for example,
shown its efficacy for selecting the optimal transformation and modulation functions respectively for
image enhancement and image hiding by introducing a new concept of image characteristic curves
based on merit function values.
D. Bhandari, C.A. Murthy and S.K. Pal
Analysis of Structural and Statistical Properties of a Large Network
Degree distribution of nodes, especially a power law degree distribution, has been regarded as one of
the most significant structural characteristics of social and information networks. In real world
connectivity of network nodes generally follows a Power-law distribution. Node degree, however, only
discloses the first-order structure of a network. Higher-order structures such as the edge
embeddedness and community detection may play more important roles in many real world networks.
Modeling large-scale real world networks using a Power-law distribution produces significant fitting
error. Therefore we propose to use of more accurate node degree distribution model based on simple
geometric distribution.
S. Chattopadhyay, C.A. Murthy and S.K. Pal
Influence Maximization in Large Scale Directed Social Networks
The research work addresses the problem of finding top k influential nodes in large scale directed
social networks. We propose two new centrality measures, Diffusion Degree for independent cascade
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model of information diffusion and Maximum Influence Degree. Unlike other existing centrality
measures, diffusion degree considers neighbors’ contributions in-addition to the degree of a node. The
measure also works flawlessly with non uniform propagation probability distributions. Maximum
Influence Degree provides the maximum theoretically possible influence (Upper Bound) for a node and
has been used as the benchmark. Extensive experiments are performed with eight different real life
large scale directed social networks. For independent cascade model we perform experiments with
both uniform and non uniform propagation probabilities. We use Diffusion Degree Heuristic (DiDH), to
find the top k influential individuals. k seeds obtained through it for both the setups show superior
influence compare to the seeds obtained by high degree heuristics, degree discount heuristics and
different variants of set covering greedy algorithms. It is shown that the influence of the k seeds
selected by DiDH is close to the benchmark resulting from the maximum influence degree. The
superiority of the proposed method is also found to be statistically significant as per T-test.
S. Kundu, C.A. Murhty and S.K. Pal
Dimensionality Reduction for Data Mining Applications
Dimensionality Reduction (DR) is an active area of research, which refers to the problem of projecting
high-dimensional data onto a low-dimensional manifold so that relevant information is preserved. DR
arises in many application areas where direct processing of the data is too costly. Most of the widely
used Dimensionality reduction algorithms work well with the data with less number of features. Their
performance degrades as the number of features becomes larger and the dataset becomes larger.
Our aim is to develop new and efficient algorithms for dimensionality reduction and to get set of
features for different applications. There are different ways for achieving this. Currently we are working
on Combination of feature selection and extraction.
Sreevani and C.A. Murthy
Function Prediction of Unclassified Genes
One of the important goals of biological investigation is to predict the function of unclassified gene. A
single data source can be used for such task but it often lacks the degree of accuracy needed for
accurate gene function prediction. This can be improved by integrating high-throughput biological data,
such as, phenotypic profiles, gene expression microarrays, protein sequences, Kyoto Encyclopedia of
Genes and Genomes (KEGG) pathway, and protein–protein interaction information. In this study, we
proposed a weighted power scoring framework, called weighted power biological score (WPBS), for
combining different biological data sources and predicting the function of some of the unclassified
yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae genes. The relative power and weight coefficients of different data
sources, in the proposed score, are estimated systematically by utilizing functional annotations of
classified genes, available from Saccharomyces Genome Database. Genes are then clustered by
applying k-medoids algorithm on WPBS, and novel functional predictions of 334 unclassified genes
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are made using a P-value cutoff 1 × 10 . These predictions may provide new directions in gene
analysis and biological research. The WPBS is available online at
http://www.isical.ac.in/~shubhra/WPBS/WPBS.html, where one can download WPBS, related files,
and a MATLAB code to predict functions of unclassified genes.
S.S. Ray and S.K. Pal
Micro RNA Analysis
Micro RNA (miRNA) is one kind of non-coding RNA, generally responsible for the expression of some
basic characteristic (such as embryonic development, cell proliferation, apoptosis etc.) in all the living
organisms containing eukaryotic cell. It consists of 22 nucleotides (22 nt), works directly on
the messenger RNA (mRNA), and also plays an important role in the disease cancer. We propose a
“weighted threshold” method to predict cancers from unknown miRNA expressions. While, the
threshold is generated by using the average Euclidean distance between the normal and the
cancerous miRNA expressions, the weight factor is varied over different types of cancer to maximize
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the F-score or sensitivity. The effectiveness of the method is demonstrated extensively on different
types of miRNA data sets, viz., liver, colon, testes, ovary, breast, prostate, lung and uterine cancers.
While, minimum and maximum values of F-score range from 0.5909 to 0.7133 and 0.8108 to 0.8809,
range of sensitivity is observed from 0.8721 to 0.8971 and 0.9292 to 0.9876, respectively, as the size
of the training set is varied from 5% to 90%. The proposed method is found to be superior to the k-NN
and SVM classifiers.
J.K. Pal, S.S. Ray and S.K. Pal
Computing With Words
The problem of computing with words (CWW) using the Z number approach has been addressed. The
related theoretical foundation is being developed. The impact factor of different key words and
consequent sentences with respect to perceptions is under consideration.
R. Banerjee and S.K. Pal
Neurovisually Inspired Face Recognition
Computerized human face recognition is a complex task of deformable pattern recognition. The
principal source of complexities lies in the significant inter-class overlapping of faces due to the
variations caused by different poses, illuminations, and expressions (PIE). The popularly used
computerized face recognition algorithms like PCA, EBGM etc. are fairly reliable to determine facial
attributes from an image. But, in most of the cases the features are extracted in terms of gray textures.
When the database size is tuned to millions, then huge processing time is required, as each of the
pixel must be represented using at least eight bits. In this work, our objective has been to minimize the
processing time by reducing the number of bits to represent each pixel. This we have done by
combining two methods. The first one is a neuro-visually inspired method of figure-ground segregation
(NFGS) which can convert the entire face image into a binary 2D array, efficiently. The second one is
the scale invariant feature transform (SIFT) which extracts the scale invariant and rotation invariant
features from the binarized face image and thereafter matches the features. The proposed algorithm is
found successful in actually enhancing the performance of face matching. Psycho-visual experiments
also corroborate the fact.
K. Ghosh
Cellular Neural Network Model of Visual Pathway
In the central visual pathway originating from the eye, a bridging is required between two hierarchical
tasks that of pixel based information recording by visual pathway at low level on one hand and that of
object recognition at high level on the other. Such a bridge which may be designated as a mid-level
block-grained integration has been modeled by a multi-layer flexible cellular neural network (F-CNN).
The proposed CNN architecture is validated by different intermediate level tasks involving rigid and
deformable pattern recognition. Execution of such tasks by the proposed architecture, it has been
shown, is capable of generating valid and significant inputs for the WHERE (dorsal) and WHAT
(ventral) pathways in the brain. The model includes the proposal of a feedback (also by CNN
architecture) to the lower mid-level from the higher mid-level dorsal and ventral pathways for flexible
cell (physiological receptive field) size adjustment in the primary visual cortex towards successful
‘where’ and ‘what’ identifications for high-level vision.
K. Ghosh
Content Based Image Retrieval Techniques
The revolutionary internet and digital technologies have imposed a need to have a system to organize
abundantly available digital images for easy categorization and retrieval. Image retrieval techniques
based on visual image contents, like color, texture, shape, popularly known as Content-based Image
Retrieval has been in-focus for more than a decade. Many web-search-engines retrieve similar images
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by searching and matching textual etadata associated with digital images generated through manual
labeling. Manual image annotation is practically difficult for exponentially increasing image database.
As a result, Content- Based Image Retrieval which uses automatically derived image features became
popular. From a computational perspective a typical CBIR system views the query image and images
in the database (target images) as a collection of features and ranks the relevance between query
images and target images in proportion to a similarity measure calculated from the automatically
derived image features. Retrieval results with low-level features only lack semantic matching with the
query, showing vast scope of research leading to improvements in the state-of-art-techniques.
Extensive research has been done to develop advanced techniques to extract image features and
suitable similarity measures. However, the main problem is that a fully automated system cannot give
satisfactory results. There always exists an information gap between the interpretation generated from
the automatically derived features and those generated from human visual perception, which is known
as semantic gap. Minimization of semantic gap is possible through relevance feedback. Its goal is to
adapt the distance measure iteratively to match user's expectation by learning from user’s feedback.
In this process, the distance function is generally updated and the retrieval performance will depend
on the feature weights which are incorporated into the distance metric.
An interactive content based image retrieval (CBIR) technique is proposed using M-band wavelet
features with Earth Mover’s Distance (EMD). A fuzzy relevance feedback (FRF) method is proposed to
enhance the retrieval results.
A new approach to address a general purpose Content-Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) is proposed. A
set of similar images is posed as a query and Mahalanobis distance is used to evaluate the similarity
between query images and target images of the database. A clustering technique using K-means
algorithm is first used to create meaningful groups in the database. As clusters are created by
considering similarities between images in the database, the image retrieval search space is reduced
if clusters near to the query are searched. The effectiveness of the proposed algorithm is
demonstrated with increased accuracy and reduced retrieval time.
M. Banerjee
Computer and Statistical Services Centre

The video conferencing infrastructure has been installed at the four centres (Kolkata, Delhi, Bangalore
and Tezpur) of the Institute using Internet Leased Line. The facility, which can be used within centre,
can also be used from any part of the world using a Laptop or a conferencing unit set up.
The WiFi infrastructure has been installed at ISI Kolkata by CSSC, which covers WiFi facility at S.N.
Bose Bhavan, A.N. Kolmogorov Bhavan, Platinum Jubilee Academic Bhavan, Ronald A. Fisher
building, Guest House, ISEC hostel and ISI Tezpur.
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Internally Funded Projects

Ongoing Projects
Sl. Principal Unit(s)
Name of the project
no. Investigator(s) involved

Understanding Genomics and Organ Specific Fractals Pabitra Pal
1. ASU
Landscapes in Transplantable Organs Choudhury
2. Some Design Issues in Survival Analysis Anup Dewanji ASU
3. Design & Analysis of Cryptographic Scheme Palash Sarkar ASU

Analysis of Olfactory Receptor Genomic Clusters at
4. the Functional Level using Boolean Function/Cellular Amita Pal BIRU
Automata and Pattern Recognition Techniques
Multiple Decrement Tables in Population Health
5. Arni S.R.S. Rao BIRU
Insurance Policies: Deterministic Approaches

1. Physical Design for 3D Ics Susmita Sur-Kolay ACMU
2. Reconfiguration Problems Subhas C. Nandy ACMU
3. Partitioning and Covering Problem of Polygon in 2D Sandip Das ACMU
Power and Bandwidth Management in Wireless

4. Bhabani P. Sinha ACMU
Networks
5. Low Memory Algorithms Arijit Bishnu ACMU
Universal Mobile Telecommunication Systems (UMTS)
6. Sasthi C. Ghosh ACMU
Network Planning
7. Machine Authentication of Printed Security Documents U. Garain CVPR
8. Pronominal Anaphora Resolution in Bangla U. Garain CVPR
9. Multi-Script Document Recognition U. Pal CVPR
10. Online Bangla Cursive Handwriting Recognition U. Bhattacharya CVPR
11. Analysis of Individual Handwriting Bidyut B. Chaudhuri CVPR
12. Design of Automatic Bangla Spellchecker Bidyut B. Chaudhuri CVPR
Content Based Video Indexing and Retrieval using

13. B. Chanda ECSU
Visual and Temporal Features (Phase II)
Protein Fold Prediction using Short Structural Motifs
14. N.R. Pal ECSU
(Building Blocks)
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15. Studying Architectural Distortion in Mammogram D.P. Mukherjee ECSU
16. DNA Computing Based on Splicing Operation K.S. Ray ECSU

Studying on Temporal Variation of Aerosol in Relation
17. with Variation of Boundary Layer at Giridih (Indo N.C. Deb ECSU
Gangetic Plain)
Use of computational intelligence approach for image
18. M.K. Kundu MIU
and video content based retrieval and data security.
19. Integrated approach to rational drug design. S. Bandyopadhyay MIU
Development of gene selection algorithms from
20. microarray data: fuzzy-rough and neighborhood rough P. Maji MIU
set based approaches.
Development of pattern recognition and machine
21. learning tools for solving certain problems in systems R.K. De MIU
biology -II
A study on application of semi-supervised clustering
22. for analysis of remote sensing images and microarray B. Uma Shankar MIU
data.
Incorporation of knowledge for analyzing biological
23. S. Mitra MIU
data
24. Face recognition in color images C.A. Murthy MIU
Derivation of spatially significant set via spatial
25. B.S. Daya Sagar SSIU
analysis and reasoning
Human depth EEG processing for epilepsy and Kaushik Kumar
26. SSIU
cognition Majumdar

Sediment transport and bedform development in
1. R. Mazumder GSU
carbonate sediments
Evolution of carbonate platform through time:

2. examples from PG valley, Chattisgarh and Cuddapah S. Patranabis-Deb GSU
basins
Tectonics of metagranite-metabasalt association in the

3. southern part of the Nellore schist belt – petrological Dilip Saha GSU
and geochemical approach
Floodplain facies: A study of litho-facies and

4. geochemistry of the fines-dominated fluvial deposits of P. Ghosh GSU
the Gondwana successions
Physicochemical Studies on Organized Assemblies

5. (Microemulsions/Reverse Micelles) of Mixed B.K. Paul GSU
Surfactants

Detection, mapping and phenoplasticity of
1. A. Dewanji AERU
Alternanthera philoxeroides: an invasive weed
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Field testing, biosafety assays and Agronomic

2. A. Goswami AERU
evaluation of nanocides and nanofertilizers
Antioxidant scavenging and corresponding gene

3. S. Das AERU
regulation in some mangroves of Sundarbans
Studies on in vitro antimicrobial potential of Eugenia
jambolana seed extracts against multidrug resistant
4. R.R. Chattopadhyay AERU
clinical bacteria with special reference to methicillin-
resistant Staphylococcus aureus
Diet, Activity and Aging: A Prospective Study among
5. B. Mukhopadhyay BAU
the Elderly of Kolkata
Weight related behaviors among adolescent girls: An
6. S. Mukhopadhyay BAU
exploratory study
Significance of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) mutations
7. in the progression of normal epithelium cell to B. Roy HGU
leukoplakia and cancer in oral cavity
8. Multi-locus association and related issues I. Mukhopadhyay HGU

Generation of Differentiated Electronic Lexicon for Probal Dasgupta LRU
1.
Bangla
Interlexical Study of Assamese and Boro Nominal Probal Dasgupta LRU
2.
Items
Development and Structure of Education Loan
3. Tridip Ray Planning Unit
Markets in Less Developed Countries
The consequences of better access to Rural
Abhiroop
4. Schooling in P: An Evaluation of the Right to Planning Unit
Mukhopadhyay
Education.
Long run consequences of the Mahatma Gandhi Abhiroop
5. Planning Unit
National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme Mukhopadhyay
Bharat Ramaswami
6. Information and Efficiency in Agricultural Markets. Planning Unit
& Kubo Kensuke
7. Non-farm Employment and Rural Labour Markets Bharat Ramaswami Planning Unit
Does Gender Impact Public Accountability and the
Vegard Iversen,
8. Quality of Poverty Alleviation Programmes? Evidence Planning Unit
Farzana Afridi
from Andhra Pradesh
Debasis Mishra,
9. Empirical Testing of Iterative Multi-Object Auctions Abhiroop Planning Unit
Mukhopadhyay
E. Somanathan
Long – run impact of displacemant on income and Rohini
10. Planning Unit
other components of well being
Somanathan (DSE)
Bhaskar Dutta,
Sugato Dasgupta
(JNU),
E. Srudgarab
Political Opportunism and Economic Performance in
11. (University of Planning Unit
Major Indian States, 1967-2007.
Pennsylvania
Institute for the
Advances Study of
India)
102
Projects
Prabal Roy
Chowdhury,
Competition Dynamics and Sustainability of Micro Indrani Roy
12. Planning Unit
Finance Institutions Chowdhury (Jamia
Millia Islamia)
Farzana Afridi,
Female Labour Force Participation and Child
Abhiroop
13. Education in India: The Effect of the National Rural Planning Unit
Mukhopadhyay,
Employment Guarantee Scheme
Soham Sahoo
Personality profile, stress and job satisfaction of Indian Psychology
14. Rumki Gupta
sea farers Research Unit
Utilisation of developmental inputs by SCs, STs,
15. OBCs and their social networks: Experiences in Tirthankar Ghosh SRU
Jharkhand

Indexing, Digital Imaging and Online hosting of Photo Nibedita Ganguly Library,
1. images in ISI Repository Kolkata
2. Digital Repository of Contribution of ISI Scientist- Ashis Kumar Pal Library,

Phase II (1988 onwards) Kolkata
Completed Projects
Name of the project
No. Investigator(s) involved

Antar
Stat-Math,
1. ISI Lectures on Probability Bandyopadhyay &
Division
Krishanu Maulik
Mrinal Kanti Das Stat-Math
2. Young Visitors Program
Unit, Kolkata
Stat-Math
3. Growth Curve Estimation Ratan Dasgupta
Unit, Kolkata
Stat-Math
4. Lecture on Probability and Stochastic Processes VI Krishanu Maulik
Unit, Kolkata
Antar Stat-Math
5. Young Visitors Program at ISI, Delhi Bandyopadhyay & Unit,
Deepayan Sarkar Delhi

Cylindrical Regression with Categorical and Count
1. Ashis SenGupta ASU
Data
Application of Mahalanobis Taguchi Strategy in
2. Rita Saharay BIRU
Pattern Recognition
Application of Statistical Methodologies in Content
3. Smarajit Bose BIRU
Based Image Retrieval
103
Projects

1. Energy-efficient Routing in Mobile Ad-hoc Networks N. Das ACMU
Computer-aided Design and Testing of Digital
2. B.B. Bhattacharya ACMU
Microflidic Nano-Biochips
Fuzzy information retrieval: Question answering
3. D.P. Mandal MIU
paradigm.

Talchir Formation of the IB River Gondwana basin,
1. P.K. Maulik GSU
India
Morphology, function and ecology of the Mesozoic
2. non-marine tetrapods of the Gondwana basins of D.P. Sengupta GSU
peninsular India
A systematic study of marine gastropod assemblages
3. from the Jurassic rocks of Kutch, western India with S.S. Das GSU
special emphasis on faunal endemism.
Experimental investigations on the genesis of obstacle
marks and their implications for the generation of
4. B.S. Mazumder PAMU
current crescents

Development of new Agrochemicals from plant
1. allelochemicals and their possible implication in S. Mandal Biswas AERU
Agricultural practices
Integrated nutrient management for sisal cultivation in
2. laterite soil of Giridih, a sub- tropical plateau region of M. Ghose AERU
India.
3. Mycorrhizal status of Mangroves of the Sundarbans. M. Ghose AERU
Studies on expression status of miRNAs and their
4. significance in the pathogenesis of oral and cervical B. Roy HGU
cancer

Psychology
1. Self-Efficacy of agricultural farmers D. Dutta Roy
Research Unit

PCM
Processing of documents from the personal collection Memorial
1. Krishna Bhattacharya
of P C Mahalanobis Museum &
Archives
Library,
2. Reclassification of Sociology of Library Collections Shikha Bhowmick Kolkata
U.B. Kandha
Union Catalogue of Serials in Indian Statistical Library,
3. &
Institute Libraries (Delhi, Kolkata and Bangalore) Delhi
N.K. Khatri
104
Projects
Externally Funded Projects

Ongoing Projects
Name of the project Funded by

Debashish Stat-Math
1. Non Commutative Geometry groups DST
Goswami Unit, Kolkata
and non-Commutative probability
Stat-Math
2. J.C.Bose Fellowship Arup Bose DST
Unit, Kolkata
Harmonic Analysis on Riemannian
Rudra P. Sarkar & Stat-Math
3. Symmetric spaces Damek-Ricci NBHM
Swagato Ray Unit, Kolkata
spaces Homogenous Tress
Atiyah-Singer index Theorem and Stat-Math
4. Amiya Mukherjee DST
Gauge-Theoretic physics Unit, Kolkata
Airports Authority of
Safety Monitoring capability of the Antar Stat-Math India,
5.
Indian air-space Bandyopadhyay Unit, Delhi Ministry of Civil
Aviation
Stat-Math
6. J.C. Bose Fellowship Rajendra Bhatia DST
Unit, Delhi
Stat-Math
7. J.C. Bose Fellowship R.B. Bapat DST
Unit, Delhi
Stat-Math
Algebraic codes associated with rank
8. N.S.N. Sastry Unit, DST
2 residues of spherical buildings
Bangalore

Ministry of Tourism,
International Passenger Survey in India Ashis SenGupta ASU
1. Government of India
Design and Development of Database Ministry of Science &
and Analytical Tools for Microarray Ashis SenGupta ASU Technology,
2.
Data on Leishmania donovani Parasite Government of India
National Institute of
Language and Brain Organization in Sumitra
ASU Mental Health and
3. Normative Multilingualism Purkayastha
Neuroscience
Anticoccidial vaccine development: the Royal Veterinary
4. importance of genetic diversity and Arni S.R.S. Rao BIRU College, University
delivery strategy. of London
Sandip Mitra
(co-PI) International Growth
Land Acquisition and Optimal & Centre,
5. SOSU
Compensation Policy Dilip London School of
Mookherjee Economics
(Boston University)
Sandip Mitra International Growth
Political Clientelism and Government (co-PI), Centre,
6. Accountability in West Bengal : Theory Pranab Bardhan SOSU
(University of London School of
and Evidence
California) Economics
105
Projects
&
Dilip
Mookherjee
(Boston University)

New Techniques of Fast Image
B.B. Bhattacharya ACMU
Compression Based on Human Vision Intel Corporation,
1. &
Systems and Geometric Data USA
M.K. Kundu MIU
Structures.
Delay Fault Modeling and Test S. Sur-Kolay & Intel Corporation,
2. ACMU
Generation for Power Supply Noise B.B. Bhattacharya USA
Design for Manufacturability aware IBM,
3. S Sur-Kolay ACMU
Global Routing USA
S. Sur-Kolay,
Texas Instruments,
4. Parallel H.264 Codec Implementation B.B. Bhattacharya ACMU
India
& A. Banerjee
Distributed Algorithms for Geometric K.
5. ACMU DST
Problems for Robot Swarms Mukhopadhyaya
Development of Robust Document Dept. of Information
Bidyut B.
analysis and Recognition Systems for CVPR Technology, Govt. of
6. Chaudhuri
Printed Indian Scripts: Phase II. India
Development of Online Handwriting Dept. of Information
Recognition System for Indian S.K. Parui CVPR Technology (DIT),
7.
Languages Govt. of India.
European Union
A.R.D. Prasad &
8. Living Knowledge DRTC Commission
Devika P. Madalli
European Union
A.R.D. Prasad &
9. agINFRA DRTC Commission
Devika P. Madalli
To Predict the Meteorological Images
10. B. Chanda ECSU ISRO
from given sequence of Image
Digital Image Reconstruction of Indian
11. Cultural Heritage with Focus on Hampi B. Chanda ECSU DST
Ruins
Processing and Analysis of Aircraft
Images with Machine Learning
12. A. Ghosh MIU U.S. Army
Techniques for Locating Objects of
Interest.
Department of
Computational Methods for MicroRNA
S. Science &
13. Target Detection and Its Role in MIU
Bandyopadhyay Technology, New
Cancer Detection
Delhi
DST-CONACYT
Development of Efficient Many- Indo-Mexican
objective Optimization Technique with S. Scientific-
14. MIU
Parallel Com- Bandyopadhyay Technological
puting and Objective Reduction Cooperation
Programme
106
Projects
Distributed Knowledge Discovery in

S. DST CPSTIO
15. Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks for Event MIU
Bandyopadhyay Program
Monitoring
16. RADIOMICS S. Mitra MIU Maastricht University
Computation in the brain: neuron,
Kaushik Kumar
17. synapse, astrocyte interactions in SSIU DST
Majumdar
small networks

Sedimentation history of
Palaeoproterozoic Dhalbhum and
1. Dalma Formations, eastern India in the R. Mazumder GSU DST
Kokpara-Tata section and its
implications”
Ministry of
T. Chakraborty
Environment and
2. Ganga River Basin Management Plan P. Ghosh GSU
Forests,
S. N. Sarkar
Govt. Of India
Nellore schist belt and Proterozoic
3. tectonics of the southeast margin of Dilip Saha GSU DST
India
The thermal evolution of Peninsular S. Bhattacharya
4. GSU DST, AISRF
Indian & D. Saha
Influence of bedforms on turbulent
5. characteristics and its implications to B.S. Mazumder PAMU DST
sedimentology : an experimental study
Particle-fluid interactions at turbulent
Council of Scientific
boundary layer flow over smooth/rough
6. B.S. Mazumder PAMU and Industrial
surface using Image processing
Research (CSIR)
technique
National Academy of
Water wave scattering and associated
7. B.N. Mandal PAMU Sciences India
mathematical techniques.
(NASI)

Process for the protein-assisted
nanocomposite synthesis of silica- Department of
protease/chitinase-humic acid (Si- A. Goswami AERU Biotechnology
1.
Protease/Chitinase-Has) as (DBT), Govt. of India
biocapsulated pesticides
Development of agro-entomotoxic Department of
2. nanoparticles and their use inmedical A. Goswami AERU Biotechnology
science: applied and basic aspects (DBT), Govt. of India
Indian Council of
Designing, studying mode of action and
3. A. Goswami AERU Agricultural
biosafety of nanopesticides
Research, (ICAR)
Genetic manipulation based
Indian Council of
enhancement of microbial phosphate
4. A. Goswami AERU Agricultural
and nitrate remediation for waste water
Research, (ICAR)
treatment
107
Projects
Understanding of the molecular basis of

Department of
nanoparticle induced transformations in
5. A. Goswami AERU Biotechnology
viral morphology and their biological
(DBT), Govt. of India
functionalities in host-virus interactions
Commercial Scale Production of Department of

6. Nanopesticides and Nanofungicides for A. Goswami AERU Biotechnology
Indian Agro-industry (DBT), Govt. of India
Development of information on Department of

agricultural and horticultural production Science &
7. P. Banik AERU
and their marketing using RS and GIS Technology (DST),
in some districts of West Bengal West Bengal
Eco-epidemiological modeling on Department of

8. disease dynamics with disease on both J.Chattopadhyay AERU Atomic Energy
prey and predator population (DAE), Govt. of India
An investigation on antimicrobial
Department of
potential of Chebulic myrobalan (fruit of
Science &
9. Terminalia chebula Retz.) against R.R.
AERU Technology (DST),
methiciilin-resistant Staphylococcus Chattopadhyay
West Bengal
aureus
Biochemical & physiological
characterization of Darjeeling tea
10. Tea Board,
clones towards the selection of superior S. Das AERU
India
genotypes against abiotic stress.
Physical Growth, Body Composition
and Nutritional Status of the Bengali
School aged children, Adolescents and The NHF,
11. P. Dasgupta BAU
Young adults of Calcutta, India. Effects The Netherlands
of Socioeconomic factors on secular
trends.
Studies on expression and analysis of
Department of
miRNA genes in oral cavity cancer and
12. B. Roy HGU Biotechnology
precancer: Significance in marker
development and pathogenesis
Genome-wide Association Study of Department of
13. Chronic Pancreatitis S. Ghosh HGU Biotechnology

Impact of Economic Reforms on Tribal Kunal
1. ERU NABARD
Poverty Chattopadhyay
Socio-Economic Conditions of Five
Government of West
2. Minority Communities in the District of Pulakesh Maiti ERU
Bengal
Murshidabad ,West Bengal
The Diagnostic Survey of Closed
Government of West
3. Industrial under Micro & Small Scale Pulakesh Maiti ERU
Bengal
Enterprises, West Bengal
108
Projects
South Asia Network

Linkages between Disperse
Subhendu of Economic
4. Urbanization and Rural Industrialization ERU
Chakraborty Research Institutes
A case Study from West Bengal
(SENEI)
Planning
Evaluation Study on Boarder Area Buddhadeb
5. ERU Commission,
(BADP) Cluster – B Ghosh
Government of India
Planning
Evaluation Study on Boarder Area Buddhadeb
6. ERU Commission,
(BADP) Cluster – C Ghosh
Government of India
Language & Brain Organization In
7. Probal Dasgupta LRU DST
Normative Multilingualism.
Indian Language Corpora Initiative- Niladri Sekhar
8. LRU DIT
Bengali Dash
Probal Dasgupta
Indradhanush Wordnet Development for
9. & Niladri Sekhar LRU DIT
Bengali Language
Dash
Farzana Afridi,
Bidisha
Information provision and the quality of
10. Barooha and Planning Unit IGC Grant
education in Rural India
Rohini
Somanathan
Tridip Ray
Ministry of Finance
Income Contingent Loans: Policy and Mausumi
(Department of
11. Implications for Financing Higher Das PlanningUnit
Economic Affairs)
Education (Delhi School of
Government of India
Economics)
Psychology
Recruitment of Accounts Assistants in
12. Anjali Ghosh Research KMDA
KMDA
Unit

A.R. Chowdhury,
U.H. Acharya, SQC & OR
1. Six Sigma Implementation Somnath Ray, Unit, Qualmind Global
Sanjit Ray & Bangalore
E.V. Gijo
A.R. Chowdhury,
SQC & OR
U.H. Acharya,
2. Six Sigma Training & Implementation Unit, Bosch Ltd.
Somnath Ray &
Bangalore
E.V. Gijo
Boby John SQC & OR
Visionet
3. Six Sigma Green Belt Program & Unit,
Technologies
K.K. Chowdhury Bangalore
Boby John SQC & OR Hewlett Packard
Training on Statistical Techniques for
4. & Unit, Global e: Business
Business Analytics
K.K. Chowdhury Bangalore Operations
SQC & OR NVT Quality
5. Quality Audits P.K. Perumallu Unit, Certification Pvt.
Bangalore Ltd.
SQC & OR
6. Training and Consultancy K.K. Chowdhury Unit, ISQT
Bangalore
109
Projects
Training and Consultancy in Flow tech SQC & OR

7. Calibration and testing to ISO 9001 and A. Rajagopal Unit, FCRI
ISO 17025 Standards Coimbatore
SQC & OR
Six Sigma Training and Project
8. A. Rajagopal Unit, GHCL Ltd.
Consultancy Coimbatore
SQC & OR
9. A. Rajagopal Unit, Office Six Sigma
Guidance Coimbatore
SQC & OR
Advance Technology Centre, Six Sigma
10. A. Rajagopal Unit, Aero Space Industry
Green Belt Training and Consultancy Coimbatore
SQC & OR
Quislex Legal
11. Quality & Process Improvement G. Murali Rao Unit,
Services Pvt Ltd.
Hyderabad
SQC & OR
12. Joint Training Session with A R A I S. Rath ARAI
Unit, Pune
Joint Training Sessions with AIM on Six SQC & OR

13. S. Rath AIM
Sigma Unit, Pune
SQC & OR
14. DoE Studies S. Rath Pidilite
Unit, Pune
SQC & OR
15. Training on SPC S. Rath HEG
Unit, Pune
SQC & OR
16. Six Sigma Green-belt Programs S. Rath NELCO
Unit, Pune
SQC & OR
17. Lean Six Sigma Program S. Rath Nihilent
Unit, Pune
Center for Soft Computing Research

Statistical, Structural and Soft Center for
Indo-Brazil
Computing based Techniques for Soft
1. S.K. Pal collaborative project,
Pattern Recognition: Theory, Algorithms Computing
DST, New Delhi
and Applications to Bioinformatics Research
Completed Projects
Name of the project Funded by

Stat-Math
Interacting Particle Systems: Scaling
1. Siva Athreya Unit, CSIR
Limits and Long Term properties
Bangalore

Robust implementation of a Variant of WESEE,
1. Palash Sarkar ASU
the Rajndael (AES) Ministry of Defence
110
Projects
Department of
Analysis of Cryptographic Algorithms &
Science &
Evaluation on Enhancing Network
2. Bimal Roy ASU Technology,
Security Based on Mathematical
Government of
Science
India

Digital imaging technique for Department of
Anindita
1. investigations of particle-fluid PAMU Science and
Bhattacharya
interactions due to turbulent flow Technology

HGU (in
collaboration
with Fogarty
Washington International
1.
Statistical Methods For Mapping S. Ghosh University Center, NIH
Multivariate Phenotypes School of
Medicine, St.
Louis, USA)
Polymorphisms in CYP1A1, CYP2E1
and NAT drug metabolizing genes and B. Roy HGU DST
2.
risk of tobacco related oral cavity
precancer and cancer in India

Climate Policy Outreach, funded European
1. E. Somanathan Planning Unit
Completed Commission.
Farzana Afridi,
Cognitive Effects of Supplementary Bidisha
2. School Feeding Programme Barooha and Planning Unit IGC Grant
Completed Rohini
Somanathan
Does Gender Impact Public
Accountability and the Quality of Poverty
Vegard Iversen,
3. Alleviation Programmes? Evidence from Planning Unit IGC Grant
Farzana Afridi
Andhra Pradesh
Completed
Chetan Ghate,
Peter
Australia - India
Indian Economic Reforms Robertson
4. Planning Unit Institute (University
(University of
of Melbourne)
Western
Australia)
Psychology
Research
Final ( External) Evaluation of Special
Unit & Government of
5. Adult Literacy Programme at Tripura Anjali Ghosh
Sociological Tripura
Research
Unit

SQC & OR
1. Six Sigma Green Belt Training U H Acharya NADP Nagpur
Unit, Bangalore
111
Projects
SQC & OR
U H Acharya TVS Motor
2. Six Sigma Training & Implementation Unit,
K K Chowdhury Company
Bangalore
SQC & OR Siemens
Training on Statistical Techniques for
3. Boby John Unit, Information
Quantitative Project Management
Bangalore Systems
SQC & OR
Training on Statistical techniques for
4. Boby John Unit, FirstSource
Quantitative Project Management
Bangalore
SQC & OR
Certification Prog. on Six Sigma Black
5. K K Chowdhury Unit, Bharat Electronics
Belt
Bangalore
A R Chowdhury
SQC & OR
U H Acharya
6. Six Sigma Training & Implementation Unit, Tata BP Solar
Somnath Ray
Bangalore
E V Gijo
SQC & OR
Guidance on Process Performance Hewlett Packard
7. Boby John Unit,
Modelling Global Soft Pvt. Ltd
Bangalore
SQC & OR
Accenture Services
8. Six Sigma Consultancy Boby John Unit,
Pvt Ltd
Bangalore
SQC & OR
9. SPC Training Sanjit Ray Unit, J K Tyre, Chennai
Bangalore
SQC & OR Apollo Hospitals
D. Sampangi
10. Training on Six Sigma Yellow Belt Unit, Enterprise Limited,
Raman
Chennai Chennai
SQC & OR
D. Sampangi Apollo Tyres
11. Training on Six Sigma Black Belt Unit,
Raman Limited, Chennai
Chennai
Reduction of Imperfections in Cotton
SQC & OR Bannari Amman
Yarn as a continual improvement
12. A. Rajagopal Unit, Spinning Mills Ltd.,
preparing for Surveillance Audit towards
Coimbatore Dindigul
ISO 9001 system
Study on Cost Control with Quality -
SQC & OR
Correlation of Water Consumption
13. A. Rajagopal Unit, TCTP, Erode
firewood Consumption , Oil furnace, for
Coimbatore
Continual improvement
Study on Feed back Analysis by SQC & OR Fluid Research
14. foreign trainees for Training A. Rajagopal Unit, Control Institute,
Improvement Coimbatore Palakad
Project Management to meet SQC & OR
SRC Projects,
15. contractually recruitments for Thermal A. Rajagopal Unit,
Salem
Power Project at Tuticorin Coimbatore
SQC & OR
Time Series Trend in Cotton and Yarn MYK Spinning Mills,
16. A. Rajagopal Unit,
Price for Planning and Predication Mahaboob nagar
Coimbatore
In Plant Training Programme on Six Cognizant
SQC & OR
Sigma Green Belt and Black belt Technology
including Project Consultancy for Solutions,
Coimbatore
Software’s Coimbatore
112
Projects
In Plant Training Programme

SQC & OR
On Six Sigma Green belt and Black belt KG Hospitals,
including Project Consultancy for health Coimbatore
Coimbatore
Science
General Training programme on Six SQC & OR
19. Sigma Green Belt and Black Belt A. Rajagopal Unit, Participants
including Project Guidance at Office Coimbatore
SQC & OR
20. A. Rajagopal Unit, KG Hospital
Consultancy
Coimbatore
Environmental Aspects and Impacts SQC & OR
21. with Measurements on Zero Liquid A. Rajagopal Unit, TCTP
Discharge, PH and TDS Coimbatore
SQC & OR
Road Infrastructure, Quality and Timely
22. A. Rajagopal Unit, SRC
Completion to ISO 9001 and MORTH
Coimbatore
Customer Relationship Management, SQC & OR
Bannari Amman
23. Continual Improvement and HR A. Rajagopal Unit,
Spinning Mills
System Implementation Coimbatore
Break Down Analysis of New machinery SQC & OR
24. and Improvement with Compliance to A. Rajagopal Unit, Shiva Textiles
ISO 9001 Standard. Coimbatore
SQC & OR
Training program on Design of Amararaja Batteries
25. S.M. Subhani Unit,
Experiments Ltd., Tirupati
Hyderabad
SQC & OR
Consultancy and implementation of ISO Kurnool Cylinders
26. S.M. Subhani Unit,
9001 systems Pvt. Ltd.
Hyderabad
Training program on Statistical G.S.R. Muthy SQC & OR
ITC Ltd. – PSPD,
27. Concepts, Tools and Techniques for & Unit,
Bhadrachalam
TPM for QM Pillar Executives A.L.N. Murthy Hyderabad
S.M. Subhani SQC & OR
Training program on Six Sigma Green ASSOCHAM,
28. & Unit,
Belt New Delhi
S.S. Handa Hyderabad
Training program on Statistical G.S.R. Muthy SQC & OR
ITC Ltd. – PSPD,
29. Concepts, Tools and Techniques for & Unit,
Bhadrachalam
TPM for KK Pillar Executives A.L.N. Murthy Hyderabad
A.L.N. Murthy SQC & OR
Orientation Program on Quality BHEL,
30. & Unit,
Management Hyderabad
G. Murali Rao Hyderabad
S.M. Subhani SQC & OR
Training program on Six Sigma Green Indian
31. & Unit,
Belt Immunologicals Ltd.
P. Mandal Hyderabad
A.L.N. Murthy SQC & OR
Training program on Concepts and Tools BHEL,
32. & Unit,
for Root Cause Analysis (RCA) Ramachandrapuram
G. Murali Rao Hyderabad
SQC & OR
Arup Ranjan
33. Six Sigma Black Belt Training & Projects Unit, Kolkata ITC, Munger
Mukhopadhyay
113
Projects
Arup Ranjan SQC & OR Price Waterhouse

34. Six Sigma Black Belt Training & Projects
Mukhopadhyay Unit, Kolkata. Coopers, Kolkata
Central Electricity
SQC & OR
35. ISI-CERC Arup K. Das Regulatory
Unit, Kolkata
Commission
ISO-9001, ISO-14001, OHSAS- 18001 SQC & OR DIC India Limited,
36. Ranjan Sett
Implementation Unit, Kolkata Kolkata
SQC & OR Petroleum Planning

37. Data Quality Project Anup Majumdar
Unit, Kolkata Analysis Cell
SQC & OR
Tata Steel Limited
38. Quality Improvement Projects Prasun Das Unit, Kolkata
(Jamshedpur)
Quality Assurance of Raw Material,

SQC & OR Tata Steel Limited
39. Long Products, Flat Products and Prasun Das
Unit, Kolkata (Jamshedpur)
Bought Out Items (Ferro-alloys)
Simple Problem Solving Tools and

SQC & OR Tata Steel Limited
40. Statistical Treatment of Laboratory Prasun Das
Unit, Kolkata (Jamshedpur)
Sampling and Testing Data
Chief Inspectorate
Arup Ranjan SQC & OR
41. Six Sigma Green Belt Training Program of Naval
Mukhopadhyay Unit, Kolkata
Armaments
SQC & OR Larsen & Toubro

42. Six Sigma Implementation A. Sarkar
Unit, Mumbai Ltd.
SQC & OR
43. Master Black Belt Training Programme A. Sarkar HDFC Bank
Unit, Mumbai
SQC & OR Enercon India Pvt

44. Six Sigma Implementation A. Sarkar
Unit, Mumbai Ltd.
Mahindra &
Training on DoE for Quality SQC & OR
45. A. Sarkar Mahindra,
Improvement Unit, Mumbai
Swaraj Division
EQUATE
SQC & OR
46. Training on Six Sigma Tools A. Sarkar Petrochemical
Unit, Mumbai
Limited
SQC & OR
47. Training on Statistical Techniques A. Sarkar TATA SED Ltd.
Unit, Mumbai
114
Projects
North East Projects
Ongoing Projects
Sl. Principal
Name of the project Unit(s) involved
no. Investigator(s)

1. Thrust sequences, cross faults and fault zone rocks Dilip Saha GSU
in the eastern Himalaya – Phase II

Genetic epidemiology of Malaria and prevalence of
1. T.S. Vasulu BAU
Hb E in northeast regions of the country
Completed Projects
Sl. Principal
Name of the project Unit(s) involved
no. Investigator(s)

SQC & OR Unit,
1. Quality Development programme at the North-East Somnath Ray
Bangalore
115
4. SYMPOSIA, CONFERENCES, WORKSHOPS, LECTURES AND SEMINARS
ORGANISED
Symposia and Conferences
Special Seminar on “Random Matrices”: Stat-Math Unit, Kolkata, July 21--22, 2011.
Lectures on “Probability and Stochastic Processes VI”: Stat-Math Unit, Kolkata, December 16-20,
2011.
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12 Discussion Meeting on “Harmonic Analysis”: Stat-Math Unit, Kolkata, December 27--29, 2011.
Conference on “Analysis”: Stat-Math Unit, Delhi, December 23-25, 2011.
Conference on “Under-graduate Mathematics Education in India”: Stat-Math, Bangalore, August 29-

30, 2011.
International Conference on “Current Issues and Applications of Statistics (CIAS 2012)”: BIRU,
Kolkata, January 2-4, 2012.
4th International Conference on "Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence (PReMI’11)": MIU,
Kolkata with Higher School of Economics held at HSE, Moscow, Russia, June 26-30, 2011.
International Conference on “Modern Perspectives of Cosmology and Gravitation”: PAMU, Kolkata,

February 07-11, 2012.
UGC sponsored National Seminar on “Emerging Trends in Plant Science”: AERU with PG Department
of Botany, Barasat Government College held at Barasat Government College, Barasat July 14-15,
2011.
National Seminar on “Demographic Transition and Inclusive Development”: Indian Statistical Institute,
Kolkata with International Institute for Population Sciences, Mumbai, March 15-17, 2012.
National Conference on “Re-writing Culture, Re-telling Narrative: Gender and the Politics of
Representation”: LRU with Brahmananda Keshab Chandra College, Kolkata, February 9-10, 2012.
7th Annual Conference on “Growth and Development”: Planning Unit, Delhi, December 15-17, 2011.
Conference on “International Growth Centre – Indian Statistical Institute Development Policy”:

Planning Unit, Delhi, December 19-20, 2011.
B.N. Bhattacharya Memorial Seminar on “Advances in Quantitative Research on Reproductive and

Child Health”: PSU, Kolkata, January 20, 2012.
International Conference on “International Conference on Quality & Reliability Engineering - Recent

Trends & Future Directions (Theme: Quality-New Frontiers) (ICQRE 2011)”: SQC & OR Unit,
Bangalore held at Hotel Atria, Bangalore, December 20-22, 2011.
Conference on “Annual Six Sigma Conference along with Case Study Presentation Contest”: SQC &
OR Unit, Bangalore held at Hotel Atria, Bangalore, February 14-15, 2012.
International Conference on “Game Theory, Operations Research and their Applications & Workshop
on Game Theory”: SQC & OR Unit, Chennai, January 3-7, 2012.
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Conferences and Seminars
A workshop on “Achieving Break through Quality”: SQC & OR Unit, Coimbatore in association with
The Hindu and Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Coimbatore, June 29, 2011.
National Conference on “Digital Rights Management in Library”: Central Library, Kolkata, March 01-02,
2012.
Workshops and Training Programmes
International Workshop on “Economic Growth in West Bengal: Challenges and Priorities”: Indian
Statistical Institute in collaboration with International Growth Centre, London School of Economics,
held at Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, January 11 & January 13, 2012.
Training Programme on “Advanced Training School in Mathematics for Lecturers (ATML) on Calculus
and Geometry” (funded by National Board for Higher Mathematics): Stat-Math Unit, Kolkata,
November 28-December 10, 2011.
Workshop on “Estream Ciphers”: Stat-Math Unit, Delhi in collaboration with Centre of Excellence in
Cryptology (CoEC), September 30-October 1, 2011.
Workshop on “Number Theory and Related areas in Cryptography”: Stat-Math Unit, Delhi in
collaboration with Centre of Excellence in Cryptology (CoEC), February 12-14, 2012.
Workshop on “Mathematics as a career - Catching young Ramanujans” (on the occasion of 125th Birth
Anniversary of Srinivasa Ramanujan): Stat-Math Unit, Bangalore, January 7-8, 2012.
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Training programme on “Sample Survey Methodology and Estimation Process” (for 31 Batch of ISS
probationers): ASU, Kolkata, September 19-30, 2011.
Workshop on “Reliability Theory and Survival Analysis”: ASU, Kolkata, November 23-25, 2011.
Workshop on “Data Analysis by Excel” (under North-East Training Programme): ASU, Kolkata,
December 12-16, 2011.
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Training programme on “Sample Survey and Methodology” (for 32 Batch of ISS probationers): ASU,
Kolkata, March 12-23, 2012.
Workshop on “SQC and OR Practices – Method and Applications using Software” (under North-East
Training Program): BIRU, Kolkata held at Pachhunga University College, Aizawl, November 17-18,
2011.
Workshop on “Basic Course on Data Handling and Sample Survey”: North-East Centre, Tezpur for
Department of Economics and Statistics, Govt. of Assam, March 13-17, 2012.
Workshop on “Algorithms for wireless networks” (under North-East Programme): ACMU, Kolkata in
collaboration with Dibrugarh University, Assam held at Dibrugarh University February 8–10, 2012.
11th Workshop on “Computational Information Processing” (under North-East Programme): ECSU,

Kolkata held at Don Bosco College of Engineering and Technology, Guwahati, Assam, July 14-16,
2011.
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12 Workshop on “Computational Information Processing” (under North-East Programme): ECSU,
Kolkata held at North Eastern Regional Institute of Science and Technology, Nirjuli,
Arunachal Pradesh, February 22-25, 2012.
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Winter School on “Soft Computing, Pattern Recognition and Image Processing": MIU, Kolkata in
collaboration North-Eastern Hill University held at Shillong, Meghalaya, October 20–24, 2011.
Workshop on "Advanced Methods in Spatial Data Processing and Analysis": SSIU, Bangalore, March
06–07, 2012.
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6 National Workshop on “Indian Languages Corpora Initiative (ILCI)”: LRU, Kolkata with Department
of HSS, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, held at Dept. of HSS, Indian Institute of Technology,
Mumbai, January 02–03, 2012.
Workshop on “Environment, Inequality and Conflict”: Planning Unit, Delhi in collaboration with the
Centre for Equality and Social Opportunity, University of Oslo, held at Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi
Centre, March 28-29, 2012.
Workshop on “Application of Reliability Statistics in Psychological research”: Psychology Research

Unit, Kolkata, October 21, 2011.
Workshop on “Structural Equation Modelling in Assessing Reliability of the Psychological test”:

Psychology Research Unit, Kolkata, November 17-18, 2011.
Training Programme on “AMOS 20.0”, Psychology Research Unit, Kolkata, March 26, 2012.
Certification Program on “Six Sigma Green Belt (GB-06)”: SQC & OR Unit, Bangalore, April 27-May
01, 2011.
Certification Program on “Six Sigma Black Belt (BB-10)”: SQC & OR Unit, Bangalore, May 23-29
(Phase-I) & July 25–August 02 (Phase-II), 2011.
Training Program on “Data Mining & Business Analytics”. SQC & OR Unit, Bangalore, June 08–10,
2011.
Certification Program on “Six Sigma Master Black Belt (MBB-16)”. SQC & OR Unit, Bangalore, June
20–July 01, 2011.
One-day Programme on "Six Sigma for Champions" SQC & OR Unit, Bangalore (for Reliance
Industries Limited, Jamnagar), July 28, 2011.
Certification Program on “Six Sigma Green Belt (GB-07)”: SQC & OR Unit, Bangalore, August 10-14,
2011.
Training Program on “Statistical Techniques for Quantitative Project Management”: SQC & OR Unit,
Bangalore, August 17-19, 2011.
Training Program on “Data Mining & Business Analytics”. SQC & OR Unit, Bangalore, August 29–31,
2011.
Certification Program on “Six Sigma Black Belt (BB-11)”: SQC & OR Unit, Bangalore, August 22-28
(Phase-I) & October 10-18 (Phase-II), 2011.
One-day Workshop on “Six Sigma Champions” SQC & OR Unit, Bangalore (for Vodafone at
Ahmadabad), September 08, 2011.
Certification Program on “Six Sigma Master Black Belt (MBB-17)”: SQC & OR Unit, Bangalore,
September 19-30, 2011.
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Certification Program on “Six Sigma Green Belt (GB-08)”: SQC & OR Unit, Bangalore, November 05-
06 & November 11-13, 2011.
Certification Program on “Six Sigma Green Belt (GB-09)”: SQC & OR Unit, Bangalore, December 09-
11 & November 17-18, 2011.
Training Program on “Statistical Techniques for Data Mining & Business Analytics”: SQC & OR Unit,
Bangalore, December 13-15, 2011.
Pre-Conference Workshop on “Reliability Data Analysis and Test Planning (ICQRE 2011)”: SQC & OR
Unit, Bangalore, December 19, 2011.
Post-Conference Workshop on “Covering Arrays for Testing Software & Software-Hardware Systems
(ICQRE 2011)”: SQC & OR Unit, Bangalore, held at Hotel Atria, Bangalore, December 22, 2011.
In-house Training Programme on "Reliability Engineering": SQC & OR Unit, Bangalore (for South
Western Railway, Hubli), January 03-04, 2012.
Certification Program on “Six Sigma Black Belt (BB-12)”: SQC & OR Unit, Bangalore, January 16-22
(Phase-I) & March 12-20 (Phase-II), 2012.
Training Program on “Design for Six Sigma (DFSS-01)”: SQC & OR Unit, Bangalore, January 30-
February 04, 2012.
Certification Program on “Six Sigma Green Belt (GB-10)”: SQC & OR Unit, Bangalore, February 05-12,
2012.
Training Program on “Green Belt”: SQC & OR Unit, Bangalore (for Basaveswara Institute of
Technology), held at Bagalkot, February 07-11, 2012.
Certification Program on “Six Sigma Master Black Belt (MBB-18)”: SQC & OR Unit, Bangalore,
February 20-March 03, 2012.
Certification Program on “Six Sigma Green Belt”: SQC & OR Unit, Bangalore (for North-East Region),
held at St. Antony’s College, Shillong, Meghalaya, March 05-07, 2012.
Certification Program on “Six Sigma Green Belt”: SQC & OR Unit, Bangalore (for North-East Region),
held at Tezpur University, Tezpur, Assam, March 09-11, 2012.
Workshop on “Six sigma Green Belt”: SQC & OR Unit, Chennai, February 20-24, 2012.
Workshop on “Graph Altorithms”: SQC & OR Unit, Chennai, March 30-31, 2012.
Training Progamme on “Green Belt Program”: SQC & OR Unit, Coimbatore, held at GHCL, Madurai,
April 26, 2011.
Training Progamme on “Reducing Non conformities on undetected and unaccepted defects for a legal
domain client at software testing stage”: SQC & OR Unit, Coimbatore, held at CTS, Coimbatore, June
05, 2011.
Training Progamme on “Statistical Process Control”: SQC & OR Unit, Coimbatore, held at FCRI,
Palakad, July 04, 2011.
Training Progamme on “Measurement System Analysis”: SQC & OR Unit, Coimbatore, held at FCRI,
Palakad, July 05-06, 2011.
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Training Progamme on “SPC for operators for Mill workers in Tamil Language”: SQC & OR Unit,
Coimbatore, held at Govinda Raja Group, Coimbatore, July 20, 2011.
Training Progamme on “Green Belt Program”: SQC & OR Unit, Coimbatore, held at ATC Coimbatore,
July 26, 2011.
Coimbatore, held at Govinda Raja Group, Coimbatore, August 01, 2011.
Training Progamme on “Flow Metering in Gas Business”: SQC & OR Unit, Coimbatore, held at FCRI
Palakad, September 19, 2011.
Coimbatore, held at Govinda Raja Group, Coimbatore, December 12, 2011.
Training Progamme on “Control Chart”: SQC & OR Unit, Coimbatore, held at FCRI Palakad, March 13,
2012.
Training Programme on “Six Sigma Green Belt”: SQC & OR Unit, Delhi, April 06-08, 2011.
Training Programme on “Six Sigma Green Belt”: SQC & OR Unit, Delhi, held at Associated Chambers
of Commerce and Industry of India (ASSOCHAM), Delhi, July 06–08, 2011.
Training Programme on “Six Sigma Green Belt”: SQC & OR Unit, Delhi, July 13–15, 2011.
Training Programme on “Statistics for Business”: SQC & OR Unit, Delhi, held at Grow Talent Company
Ltd., July 26-August 01, 2011.
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Training Programme on “Six Sigma Black Belt (1 Module)”: SQC & OR Unit, Delhi, August 03-05,
2011.
Training Programme on “Six Sigma Green Belt”: SQC & OR Unit, Delhi, September 07-09, 2011.
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Training Programme on “Six Sigma Black Belt (2 Module)”: SQC & OR Unit, Delhi, September 13-15,
2011.
nd
Training Programme on “Six Sigma Black Belt (3 Module)”: SQC & OR Unit, Delhi, October 18-21,
2011.
National Workshop on “Data Mining and Data Warehousing”: SQC & OR Unit, Delhi, October 19-23,
2011.
Training Programme on “Six Sigma Green Belt”: SQC & OR Unit, Delhi, November 02-04, 2011.
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Training Programme on “Six Sigma Black Belt (4 Module)”: SQC & OR Unit, Delhi, November 16 –
18, 2011.
Training Programme on “Six Sigma Green Belt”: SQC & OR Unit, Delhi, January 18-20, 2012.
Training Programme on “Six Sigma Master Black Belt (1st Module)”: SQC & OR Unit, Delhi, February
06-11, 2012.
Training Programme on “Six Sigma Green Belt Awareness”: SQC & OR Unit, Delhi, held at MD
Everywhere, Noida, February 22, 2012.
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Training Programme on “Environmental Data Analysis, Compilation, Interpretation, Presentation and

Reporting”: SQC & OR Unit, Delhi, in collaboration with Central Pollution Control Board, New Delhi,
February 22-24, 2012.
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Training Programme on “Six Sigma Master Black Belt (2 Module):” SQC & OR Unit, Delhi, March 12-
16, 2012.
Training Programme on “Proficiency Testing and Inter-Laboratory Comparison”: SQC & OR Unit,
Delhi, in collaboration with Central Pollution Control Board, New Delhi, March 21-23, 2012.
Training Programme on “Six Sigma Green Belt”: SQC & OR Unit, Hyderabad, December 13-17, 2011.
Training Programme on “Six Sigma Black Belt”: SQC & OR Unit, Mumbai, held at Larsen & Toubro
Ltd., April 04-08, and May 9-13, 2011
Training Programme on “Six Sigma Black Belt”: SQC & OR Unit, Mumbai, April–July 2011.
Training Programme on “Six Sigma Master Black Belt”: SQC & OR Unit, Mumbai, held at HDFC Bank,
April 25-29 and May 23-27, 2011.
Training Programme on “Design of Experiment”: SQC & OR Unit, Mumbai, held at Mahindra, May 02-
04, 2011.
Training Programme on “Six Sigma Green Belt”: SQC & OR Unit, Mumbai, held at Enercon Industries
Ltd., June 10-11 and October 03-05, 2011.
Training Programme on “Design of Experiment”: SQC & OR Unit, Mumbai, held at Mahindra, June 13-
15, 2011.
Training Programme on “Six Sigma Tools for Equate Petrochemicals”: SQC & OR Unit, Mumbai, held
at Hotel Trident, July 11-15, 2011 and December 04-08, 2011.
Training Programme on “Six Sigma Green Belt”: SQC & OR Unit, Mumbai held at Larsen & Toubro
Ltd. August 02-04 and September 14-15, 2011.
Training Programme on “Six Sigma Green Belt”: SQC & OR Unit, Mumbai, August 08-12 and
September 26-30, 2011.
Training Programme on “Statistical Process Control with Minitab”: SQC & OR Unit, Mumbai, held at
Larsen & Toubro Ltd. Mysore, August 17-18, 2011.
Training Programme on “Six Sigma Yellow Belt”: SQC & OR Unit, Mumbai, held at Enercon Industries
Ltd., August 22-23 and September 16-17, 2011.
Training Programme on “Statistical Techniques for Data Mining & Business Analytics (DMBA)”: SQC &
OR Unit, Mumbai, held at West End Hotel, September 21-23, 2011.
Training Programme on “Six Sigma Master Black Belt”: SQC & OR Unit, Mumbai, October-November
2011.
Training Programme on “Root Cause Analysis”: SQC & OR Unit, Mumbai, held at Balmer Lawrie Ltd.
November 16, 2011.
Training Programme on “Refresher programme for Six Sigma Black Belt”: SQC & OR Unit, Mumbai
held at Larsen & Toubro Ltd., Ahmednagar, December 13-14, 2011.
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Training Programme on “Statistical Training for CMM”: SQC & OR Unit, Mumbai, held at Tata SED,
December 29-30, 2011 and January 04-06, 2012.
Training Programme on “Six Sigma Black Belt”: SQC & OR Unit, Mumbai, held at Larsen & Toubro
Ltd., January 09-13, and February 01-06, 2012
Training Programme on “Statistical Training for CMM for Managers”: SQC & OR Unit, Mumbai, held at
Tata SED, Bangalore, January 19, 2012.
Training Programme on “Design of Experiments”: SQC & OR Unit, Mumbai, held at Mahindra &
Mahindra Ltd., February 07-08, 2012.
Training Programme on “Six Sigma Green Belt”: SQC & OR Unit, Mumbai (for TQM Students), held at
Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar, March 01-02, 2012.
Training Programme on “Statistical Techniques for Data Mining & Business Analytics (DMBA)”: SQC &
OR Unit, Mumbai, March 05-07, 2012
Training Programme on “Six Sigma Green Belt”: SQC & OR Unit, Mumbai, held at West End Hotel,
March 12-16, 2012.
Workshop on “KOHA–The Next Generation Library Management Software”: Library, Documentation &
Information Division, Kolkata, June 27-July 01, 2011.
Workshop on “E-resources Access & Building Institutional Repository”: Central Library, Kolkata in
collaboration with Rabindra Library, Assam University, held at Silchar, November 28-December 02,
2011.
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2 Workshop on “Digital Pictorial Photography”: Central Library, Kolkata, December 25-30, 2011.
National Workshop on “How to Prepare a Library for ISO Accreditation”: Central Library, Kolkata,
March 29-30, 2012.
National Workshop on “Using Different Metrics for Assessing Research Productivity”: Library Delhi
Centre, February 16-17, 2012.
Annual Workshop on “Logic and its Applications”: Center for Soft Computing Research, Kolkata with
Calcutta Logic Circle, September 2-4, 2011.
International Workshop on “Fuzzy Sets, Rough Sets, Uncertainty Analysis & Applications (FRUAA11)”:
Center For Soft Computing Research, Kolkata with National Institute of Technology, Durgapur,
November 21-25, 2011.
Workshop on “Bioinformatics (WBI'12”): Center For Soft Computing Research, Kolkata, February 15-
17, 2012.
Lectures and Seminars

Athreya, Krishna B., Iowa State University (08.02.2012): Coalescence in Galton Watson trees.
Balaji, V., Chennai Mathematical Institute (21.10.2011): Parabolic bundles and parahoric bundles.
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Banerjee, Moulinath, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (22.08.2011): Threshold Estimation via the use
of P-values as a Discrepancy Criterion.
Bhowmick, Jyotishman, Dept. of Mathematics, University of Oslo, Blindern, Oslo, Norway

(09.01.2012): Quantum group of unitaries and quantum gauge group.
Biswas, Shibananda, Dept. of Mathematics, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel (17.10.2011):
Geometric invariants for certain class of semi-Fredholm Hilbert modules.
Bose, Debashish, The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai (16.05.2011): Structure of spectral
pairs in 1-Dimension.
Brenner, Holger, Universitat Osnabruck, Germany (15.07.2011-16.07.2011, & 18.07.2011-

19.07.2011): Vector Bundles and Torsors.
Cruz, Clare D’, Chennai Mathematical Institute (01.08.2011): On the Hilbert polynomial of a complete
ideal in a regular local ring.
Chakraborty, Biman, School of Mathematics, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, UK (08.08.2011):

Statistical Inference Based on Multivariate Ranks.
Das, Soumya, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai (13.06.2011): Nonvanishing of Siegel
Poincare series.
Das, Soumya, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai (13.06.2011): Nonvanishing of Siegel
Poincare series.
Das, Bikramjit, RiskLab, Dept. of Mathematics, ETH Zurich (23.01.2012): Seeking hidden risks with
multivariate regular variation.
Das, Soumya, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai (27.10.2011): Differential operators on
Modular forms.
Dey, Partha Sarathi, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York, USA (02.08.2011):
Multiple phase transitions for long-range first-passage percolation on lattices.
Farrell, Tom, State University of New York, Binghamton, USA (10.02.2012): The failure of smooth
rigidity and the best of all possible maps.
Folland, G.B., University of Washington, USA (02.01.2012, 04.01.2012 & 06.01.2012): Some
representations of the discrete Heisenberg group.
Ghosh Subhrashekhar, Dept. of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley, USA (09.01.2012):

What does a Point Process Outside a Domain tell us about What’s Inside?
Gurjar, R.V., School of Mathematics, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai (02.05.2011):
Finite groups generated by pseudo-reflections.
Gurjar, R.V., School of Mathematics, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai (03.05.2011): A
survey of Affine Algebraic Geometry.
Gurjar, R.V., School of Mathematics, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai (04.05.2011):
Some open problem in Affine Geometry.
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Holowinsky, Roman, Ohio State University, USA (30.12.2011): Equidistribution Problems and L-
Functions.
Maharana, Alok, Dept. of Mathematics & Statistics, McGill University, Montreal, Canada (21.10.2011):
Acyclic Varieties.
Mandal, Mousumi, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai (21.11.2011): Normal Hilbert
polynomial.
Michailidis, Geogre, University of Michigan, USA (23.02.2012): Joint Estimation of Multiple Graphical
Models.
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Mizera, Ivan, University of Alberta (24.01.2012): Tractatus Elastico-Plasticus: Mechanical Models in
Nonparametric Regression.
Mizera, Ivan, University of Alberta (16.01.2012): Quantile Tomography: Using Quantiles with
Directional Datta.
Mizera, Ivan, University of Alberta (18.01.2012): The Discreet Charm of Convex Optimization: From
Shape Constrained Density Estimation to Empirical Bayes Decision Rules.
Mondal, Debashis, University of Chicago, USA (01.09.2011): Wavelet variance analysis for gappy time
series data.
Onoda, Nobuharu, University of Fukui, Japan (20.12.2011): Some results on infinite generation of
algebras.
Onoda, Nobuharu, University of Fukui, Japan (22.12.2011): Some results on Polynomial fibrations
over two-Demensional Noetherian normal domains.
Pal, Koushik, University of California, Berkeley, USA (06.07.2011): Model Theory and a few
Applications.
Pal, Goutam, RCC Institute of Information Technology, Kolkata (16.08.2011 & 18.08.2011):
Elementary proof of Dirichlet’s theorem on primes in arithmetic progressions.
Pal, Goutam, RCC Institute of Information Technology, Kolkata (18.08.2011): On A Conjecture of

Erdos.
Pal, Goutam, RCC Institute of Information Technology, Kolkata (23.08.2011 & 25.08.2011):
Elementary proof of the Prime Number Theorem.
Sarkar, Jyotirmoy, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, Indiana, USA (05.08.2011):

Limiting performance of a One-unit System under Varilous Repair Models.
Sengupta, Indranil, University of Texas at EL Paso (30.05.2011): Analysis of integro-differential

parabolic problems arising in the L\’ {e}vy Market.
Shastri, A.R., Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai (03.05.2011):

Polynomial Representation of knots.
Shastri, A.R., Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai (13.12.2011): A Linear Algebra Approach to the
Fundamental Theorem of Algebra.
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Sinha, Kalyan B., Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore (25.07.2011,
26.07.2011 & 27.07.2011): Representations of Canonical Commutation Relations (CCR) and Quantum
Field Theory.
Sinha, Kalyan B., Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore (29.12.2011):
Koplienko formula.
Sitaram, A., Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore (16.09.2011): On rudra Sarlar’s analogue of the
Wiener-Tauberian Theorem on symmetric space.
Balachandran, Niranjan, Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai (29.02.2012): Forbidden

configurations and Steiner designs.
Balachandran, Niranjan, Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai (01.03.2012): Storing small sets
efficiently in the bit probe model with 2 adaptive probes.
Bhattacharya, Samsiddhi, National Institute of Biomedical Genomics (14.03.2012): Statistical issues in

detecting interactions in genetic association studies.
Bhattacharya, Samsiddhi, National Institute of Biomedical Genomics (15.03.2012): Statistical methods

for discovering pleiotroic genetic variants.
Bhave, Amala, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi (13.04.2011): Comparison of the µ-invariant under
isogeny.
Bhowmik, Prasenjit, Universite de Lyon, France (10.08.2011): Algebraic values of meromorphic maps
and transcendence.
Biswas, Shibananda, Ben-Guiron University, Israel (15.11.2011): Description of basis vectors of the
joint kernel for a class of Hilbert modules.
Chatterjee, Snigdhansu, University of Minnesota, USA (19.07.2011): A statistical study of climate

change: analysis of temperature records of Arctic seawater data.
Das, Bikramjit, ETH Zurich, Switzerland (12.01.2012): Seeking hidden risks with multivariate regular
variation.
Doosti, Hassan, Tarbiat Moallem University, Iran (21.03.2012): Wavelet linear density estimation for
associated stratified size-biased sample.
Gelfand, Alan, Duke University (16.01.2012): Space is the Place: Why spatial thinking matters for
environmental problems?
Gelfand, Alan, Duke University (17.01.2012): Analyzing spatial directional data through the use of
gaussian processes.
Gupta, Ramesh C., University of Maine, USA (08.02.2012): Frailty and cure models in survival
analysis.
Kaijser, Thomas, Linkoping University, Sweden (12.10.2011): On the conditional distributions of a

partially observed Markov chain.
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Kattumannil, Sudheesh Kumar, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad (07.12.2011): Some results on

generalized Stein's identity and its applications.
Kattumannil, Sudheesh Kumar, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad (08.12.2011): Some results on

model identification of non-linear time series.
Keller, Gerhard, University of Erlangen-Nurnberg, Germany (07.03.2012): Stochastic properties of

dynamical systems: A spectral theoretic approach.
Khare, Apoorva, Stanford University, USA (28.06.2011): Generalizing the notion of convexity: weak
faces of weight polytopes.
Kochar, S.C., Portland State University, USA (02.11.2011): Dependence comparisons and their
applications.
Kole, Basudev, Indian Agricultural Statistics Research Institute, Delhi (14.09.2011): Addition of runs to
a supersaturated design.
Kumarasamy, Sakhtivel, Naval Postgraduate School, California (23.11.2011): Martingale solutions for
stochastic Navier-Strokes equations with Ito-Levy noise.
Mishra, Amit Kumar, Central University of Bihar, Patna (01.02.2012): Active redundancy allocations in
series systems.
Mishra, Amit Kumar, Central University of Bihar, Patna (02.02.2012): Standby redundancy allocations
in series and parallel systems.
Mossel, Elchanan, Department of Statistics, UC, Berekely (16.05.2011): Learning on social networks.
Mukherjee, Kanchan, Lancaster University, United Kingdom (20.07.2011): Robust estimation under
conditional heteroscedasticity.
Prasad, Srijanani Anurag, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (17.08.2011): Smoothness of

coalescence hidden-variable fractal interpolation surfaces.
Sen, Sandeep, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi (25.01.2012): Approximating shortest paths in
graphs.
Shah, Hemangi, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore (16.11.2011): On asymptotically harmonic

spaces.
Shorey, T.N., Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai (13.07.2011): Some results in binary recursive
sequences.
Sridharan, Shrihari, Chennai Mathematical Institute, Siruseri (30.11.2011): SRB-measure leaks.
Stanica, Pante, Naval Postgraduate School (11.01.2012): Various problems on sum of digits.
Tilouine, Jacques, Universite Paris 13, France (24.10.2011): Congruences between modular forms
and eigenvarieties.
Tilouine, Jacques, Universite Paris 13, France (27.10.2011): Congruences between modular forms.
Turner, Amanda, University of Lancaster, United Kingdom (04.01.2012): Hastings-Levitov aggregation

and the Brownian web.
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Zeitouni. Ofer, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel (15.02.2012): Random walks.
Zeitouni. Ofer, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel (16.02.2012): Branching random walks and the
maxima of gaussian free fields.
Athreya, Krishna B., Iowa State University, USA and Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore,
(15.02.2012): Coalescence in Galton Watson trees.
Basu, Rabeya, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Pune (25.01.2012):
Results on elementary subgroup of classical groups.
Belton, Alexander, University of Lancaster, UK (07.10. 2011): Quantum Feynman-Kac perturbations.
Blondel, Oriane, Chennai Mathematical Institute, Chennai (13.04.2011): Kinetically constrained spin
models.
Borghesi, Simone, Universita degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Milano, Italy (15.04.2011): Degree
formulas and Shimura varieties.
Burungale, Ashay, University of California, Los Angeles (20.12.2011): On the mu-invariant of Katz p-
adic L-function and its variant.
Chakrabarti, Debraj, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Centre for Applicable Mathematics,
Bangalore (13.12.2011): Complex Analysis on Bad Domains.
Chebolu, Sunil K., Illinois State University, USA (19.05.2011): On a Small Quotient of a Huge Absolute
Galois Group.
Dharmatti, Sheetal, Institut de Mathematique de Toulouse, France (11.08.2011): H^\infty feedback

boundary stabilization of two dimensional avier Stokes' equation.
Farrell, F.T., State University of New York (SUNY), Binghamton, USA, (22.03.2012): Best of all
possible maps is sometimes not good enough.
Gelfand, Alan E., Department of Statistical Science, Duke University, USA (19.01.2012): Space is the
Place: Why Spatial Thinking Matters for Environmental Problems?
Ghosh, Esha Chatterjee, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore (04.08.2011): Fibonacci Rabbits to
Rational Difference Equations - An Introduction.
Hanumanthu, Krishna, Chennai Mathematical Institute, Chennai (07.10.2011): Syzygies and geometry
of projective varieties.
Iyengar, Srikanth, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, USA (09.08.2011): Torsion in tensor products of
modules over regular rings.
Kattumannil, Sudheesh Kumar, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad (08.06.2011): Some Results on

Lower Variance Bound and Moment Identity: A Unified Approach.
Kumar, Suresh, Vanamitra, Bangalore (05.08.2011): Connect back to nature... Live a fuller life.
127
Leamer, Micah, Chennai Mathematical Institute, Chennai (02.12.2011): Asymptotic behavior of the
dimensions of syzygy modules.
Lohr, Wolfgang, Universitat-Duisburg, Essen, Germany (08.03.2012): Aspects of Gromov-weak

topology on the space of metric measure spaces.
Maldeghem, Hendrik Van, University of Ghent, Belgium (12.01.2012): Veronesean Geometries.
Manish Kumar, Universitat-Duisburg, Essen, Germany (29.03.2012): Ubiquity of covers of curves over
a field of positive characteristic.
Misra, Neeldhara, Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai (09.02.2012): Connected Dominating

Set and Short Cycles.
Muralidharan, Amrita, University of Exeter, UK (01.01.2012): Rigid analytic and formal geometry.
Omkar, S.N., Department of Aerospace Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

(09.09.2011): HAve Bliss and only Bliss Always (HABBA).
Purkait, Soma, University of Warwick, United Kingdom (02.04.2012): On Shimura Decomposition and
Tunnell-like Formulae.
Saha, Kaushik, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore (19.03.2012): Joint convergence of patterned
matrices and various notions of independence.
Shah, Hemangi Madhusudan, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore (13.09.2011): On Asymptotically

Harmonic Spaces.
Shorey, T.N., Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai (30.06.2011): Diophantine equations in binary
recursive sequences.
Sinha, Kalyan B., Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore (15.03.2012):
Trace Formulae for Functions of Self-adjoint operators.
Stepanov, Alexei, St. Petersburg Electrotechnical University, Russia (02.11.2011 & 03.11.2011):
Subgroup structure of Chevalley groups over rings.
Sundaresan, Rajesh, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, (19.03.2012): An asymptotically optimal

push-pull method for multicasting over a random network.
Thomas, V., Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai (18.08.2011): A Journey from Gauss's
Lemma to Prufer domains to Gaussian rings.
Yogeswaran D., Ecole Normale Superieure, INRIA (05.07.2011): Clustering, Percolation and
directionally convex ordering of point processes.
Zeitouni, Ofer, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel (02.02.2012): Branching random walks and the
maxima of Gaussian free fields.
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Balachandran, Niranjan, Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai

(24.02.2012): Storing small sets efficiently in the bit probe model with 2 adaptive probes.
Banerjee, Moulinath, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA (31.01.2012): Likelihood based inference
for current status data on a grid: A boundary phenomenon and an adaptive inference procedure.
Bhattacharya, Rahul, West Bengal State University (09.08.2011): Estimation of unemployment rate in
a volatile labour market.
Chakraborty, Bibhas, Department of Biostatistics, Columbia University, USA (31.05.2011): Inference

for Optimal Dynamic Treatment Regimes.
Das, Bireswar, Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar (01.06.2011): Colored Hypergraph

Isomorphism is Fixed Parameter Tractable.
Deshpande, J.V., Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai (22.11.2011): Probability distributions for
load sharing systems.
Gauravaram, Praveen, The Technical University of Denmark (15.09.2011): Application oriented

analysis of cryptographic hash functions.
Golic, Jovan, Telecom Italia (08.02.2012): On state recovery attacks on RC4.
Golic, Jovan, Telecom Italia (09.02.2012): Format and Syntax-Preserving ECB Encryption - A New
Application of RC4.
Kattumannil, Sudheesh K., University of Hyderabad (05.07.2011): Some Results on Chernoff-

Type Inequality: A Unified Approach.
Kumar, Sunil, University of Jammu (18.10.2011): A Regression Approach to the Estimation of the
Finite Population Mean in the Presence of Non-Response.
Kundu, Subrata, George Washington University, USA (16.08.2011): Comparison of Sequential

Experiments for Estimating the Number of Classes in a Population
López, Cuauhtemoc Mancillas, Computer Science Department, CINVESTAV IPN, Mexico

(06.09.2011): Compact FPGA Implementation of Disc Encryption.
Maji, Hemanta, University of California, Los Angeles, USA (06.01.2012): Computational complexity of
coin flipping.
Mihaljevic, Miodrag, Research Center for Information Security (RCIS), National Institute of Advanced
Industrial Sciences and Technology (AIST), Tokyo, Japan (09.02.2012): On Certain Generic
Techniques for Stream Ciphers Cryptanalysis, Particular Examples and Some Related Lessons.
Mukherjee, Nitis, University of Connecticut-Storrs, USA (05.12.2011): Is there magic left in teaching
probability and inference?
Mukherjee, Gourab, Stanford University, USA (07.12.2011): Estimation of high-dimensional predictive

densities.
129
Mukerjee, Rahul, Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta (20.09.2011): Optimal Fractions of Two-
level Factorials under a Baseline Parametrization.
Paul, Gautam, Jadavpur University, Kolkata (29.11.2011): Distinguishing attacks on stream ciphers.
Ramanujam, R., Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai (24.11.2011): Proof theory for security
protocols.
Ruj, Sushmita, University of Ottawa, Canada (21.02.2012): Security in communication system:

Merging theory with practice.
Sarkar, Sucharit, Columbia University, USA (23.06.2011, 24.06.2011, 29.06.2011 and 30.06.2011):
Knot theory.
Swarup De, SAS Research and Development in India, Pune (01.11.2011): Dynamic Spatial Bayesian
Models for Radioactivity Deposition.
Stanica, Pantelinon, Applied Mathematics Department, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, USA
(20.01.2012): Some Problems on Sum of Digits.
Bayesian Interdisciplinary Research Unit
Banerjee, Anjishnu, Duke University, USA (24.10.2011): Nonparametric Bayes Inference on Manifolds
with Applications.
Das, Kiranmoy, Department of Statistics, Temple University, USA (12.05.2011): A Semi-parametric

Bayesian Model for Genetic Mapping with Bivariate Sparse Longitudinal Data.
Dass, Mayukh, Assistant Professor of Marketing, Rawls College of Business, Texas Tech University,
USA (12.12.2011): Power of Customer Voice: Shape Analysis of Consumer Reviews.
Basu, K., Embedded Systems Lab, Department of Computer and Information Science and
Engineering, University of Florida, USA (22.12.2011): Efficient Techniques for Observability
Enhancement during Post-Silicon Validation and Debug.
Bandyopadhyay, S., University of Windsor, Canada (31.01.2012): Design of Translucent Optical

Networks.
Biswas, T., North Carolina State University (NCSU), USA (09.01.2012): Robust Routing in Ad Hoc
Networks.
Bhattacharya, D., Simbiosys Biowares (01.12.2011): An investigation in multicore Scheduling for

Wireless PHY Layer.
Chakraborty A., North Carolina State University (NCSU), USA (21.12.2011): A Biologically Inspired
Active Vision Framework for Cognitive Agents.
130
Chatterjee, P., Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, (24.01.2012): Trust based Secure Clustering
and Routing in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks.
Das, G.K., Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati. (15.09.2011): Rectangular Segment Search in
Secondary Storage.
Ghosh, R., Electrical and Computer Engineering, Duke University, USA (18.10.2011): Scalable
Performance and dependabillity Models loud.
Ghosh, S.K., Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai (08.12.2011): Visibility Graph Theory
for Points.
Ghosh, A., Wireless Broadband Innovation, Nokia Siemens Networks, (19.12.2011): Brief Overview of
LTE-A Wireless Technology.
Kajihara, S., Department of Computer Science & Electronics, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan
(04.01.2012): Failure Prediction of Logic Circuits for High field Reliability.
Mitra, S., Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois, USA (11.01.2012): Automatic
Verification of Region Stability of Embedded Systems.
Mukhopadhyay, S., School of Computer Science, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai
(06.02.2012): Towards Direct Product Decoding & Testing.
Pal, S.: Satish Dhawan Professor & Senior Advisor Satellite Navigation Programme, Indian Space
Research Organisation, Bangalore (06.06.2011): Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS).
Rahaman, A.M., Mathematical Science Division, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

(15.12.2011): Random Walk Sampling in Distributed Networks.
Shannigrahi, S., Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai (16.05.2011): Problems and Results
on Uniform Hypergraphs.
Shukla, K.S., Center for Embedded Systems and Critical Applications Virginia Politechnic Institute and
State University, Blacksburg, USA (05.01.2012): Abstract Interpretation, Polichrony and Safty-Critical
Software Synthesis from Formal Specifications.
Sikdar, S., Rheinisch-Westfaelische Technische Hochschule (RWTH) International Academy, Aachen,

Germany, (23.09.2011): Are there any good digraph width measures?
Sridhar, S., Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) and Electronic
Materials Research Institute, Northeastern University, USA (14.12.2011): Nanoplatforms for Photonics
and Medicine
Widmayer, P., Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zurich, Switzerland (13.02.2012):

Polygon Reconstruction with Little Information: An Example for the Power of Simple Micro-robots.
Xiang, D., Tsinghua University, Beijing, China (20.11.2011): Deadlock-Free Adaptive Routing in
Meshes/Tori.
Documentation Research and Training Centre
Chatterjee, A., Jadavpur University, Kolkata (08.03.2012): Categories in Classification and Indexing.
131
Chatterjee, A., Jadavpur University, Kolkata (12.03.2012 & 13.03.2012): UDC: Structure and Features.
Chatterjee, A., Jadavpur University, Kolkata (15.03.2012): Depth Classification: What, Why and How?
Chatterjee, A., Jadavpur University, Kolkata (19.03.2012): Indexing Language: Structure and Features.
Chatterjee, A., Jadavpur University, Kolkata (22.03.2012): IR Thesaurus: Compilation Methodology.
Chatterjee, A., Jadavpur University, Kolkata (26.03.2012): Indexing: Assigned and Designed
Chatterjee, A., Jadavpur University, Kolkata (27.03.2012): Information Consolidation Products.
Panigrahi P.K., Dept. of Library and Information Science, Calcutta University, Kolkata (28.03.2012 &
29.03.2012): Study of subject for secondary information work and services.
Panigrahi P.K., Dept. of Library and Information Science, Calcutta University, Kolkata (30.03.2012):
Information Consolidation Abstracting.
Biswas, Mainak, Multimedia R&D, Qualcomm (24.02.2012): Computer Vision assisted 2D and 3D
video processing.
Chowdhury, Santanu, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi (23.03.2012): Indexing for Image
Retrieval: A Machine Learning based Approach.
Dasgupta, Prithviraj (Raj), University of Nebraska, Omaha, USA (19.07.2011): Distributed

Coordination of Multi-Robot Systems using Game Theoretic Techniques.
Dutta, H.N., National Physical Laboratory, New Delhi (20.02.2012): Role of atmospheric science in
earthquake precursor detection: challenges ahead.
Ghosh, Avik, The University of Virginia, USA (19.08.2011): Post-silicon computing: Challenges and
opportunities.
Ghosh, Shantanu, Heinrich-Heine University of Dusseldorf, Germany (05.08.2011): Functional MRI is

not a magic tool for Cognitive Neuroscience.
Haralick Robert M., Computer Science, Graduate Center City University of New York, New York
(12.03.2012): Relation decomposition and estimation of statistical causal structure.
Sharma, Sudhir K., National Physical Laboratory, New Delhi (23.02.2012): Sources of aerosol and its
fate in the atmosphere.
Sharma, Sudhir K., National Physical Laboratory, New Delhi (27.02.2012): Role of ambient NH3 and
other trace gases in the formation of inorganic aerosol over Indo-Gangetic Plain (IGP) of India.
Sarkar, S.K., National Physical Laboratory, New Delhi (22.02.2012): Atmospheric effects on radio
propagation.
Saha, Punam K., University of Iowa, USA (09.01.2012): Multi-Scale Approaches to Bone Micro-
Architecture Analysis.
Stallman, Richard M., Free Software Foundation, USA (02.02.2012): A Free Digital Society.
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Chakraborty, Basabi, Dept. of Software & Information Science, Iwate Prefectural University, Japan
(06.09.2011): Person identification based on dynamics of online handwriting.
Chakraborty, Chiranjib, Medical Biotechnology, VIT University, Vellore, Tamil Nadu (28.12.2011):
Molecular phylogenetics, conserved domain and binding grooves of critical nodes in a signal-
transduction pathway: An exploration of insulin signaling pathway.
Chakraborty, Goutam, Dept. of Software & Information Science, Iwate Prefectural University, Japan
(29.12.2011): Gene Selection for Disease Classification from DNA Microarray Data.
Das, Sukhendu, Dept. of Computer Science & Engeering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Tamil
Nadu (12.03.2012): MST-CSS - A novel feature Representation for Content-based Video Retrieval
(CBVR).
Peters, Georg, Department of Computer Sciences and Mathematics, Munich University of Applied
Sciences, Germany (29.12.2011): Introduction to Granular Box Regression.
Atkinson, Peter, University of Southampton, UK (06.03.2012): Space-time monitoring of Earth Surface

Properties: Vegetation Phenology in India.
Boerner, Wolfgang-Martin, University of Illinois, Chicago, USA (15.12.2011): Implementation of FULL-

POL-SAR in Agriculture, forestry and aquaculture as well as for the detection of natural hazards and
natural disaster assessment from air and space for South, East and Pacific Asia – with emphasis on
multi-band FULL-POL-SAR image fusion.
Ghosh, Aurobrata, INRIA, Sophia Antipolis, France (19.04.2011): High order models in diffusion MRI
and applications.
Krishnan, R.N., Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology, Trivandrum, Kerala (07.03.2012):
Hyperspectral Image Classification.
Majumdar, Atreyi, Department of Economics, University of Delhi (21.03.2012): Socio-economic

implications of international movements of human resource with special reference to a case study of
professional Indian immigrants in the UK.
Marschallinger, Robert, ÖAW Institute Geographic Information Science, Schillerstr, Austria

(07.03.2012): 3D and 4D modeling and simulation across multiple scales in Geosciences.
Mukhopadhyay, Supratik, Department of Computer Science, Louisiana State University, USA

(21.04.2011): A Formal Approach for Developing Reliable Service-based Systems.
Murthy, K.R.S, National Institute for Advanced Studies (NIAS), Bangalore (06.03.2012): Commercial
Opportunities in Space Imageries and Spatial Information.
Pinnamaneni, Bhanu, MATRIX VISION Paris Area, France (06.03.2012): Machine Vision Applications
using Intelligent camera.
Rao, Mukund, National GIS, Planning Commission, India (06.03.2012): World gets SPATIAL –
Changing Methods and Processes.
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Ramarao, N, Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology, Trivandrum, (07.03.2012):

Hyperspectral Image Classification.
Ray, Supratim, Center for Neuroscience, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore (26.12.2011): Study of
attention at multiple scales of neural integration.
Shevade. Shirish, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore (07.03.2012): Support Vector Machines for
Structured Prediction Problems.
Tsumoto, Shusaku, Department of Medical Informatics, Shimane University, Enya-cho, Lzumo, Japan
(07.03.2012): Trajectories Mining based on Multiscale Comparison and Clustering.
Abrahami, Rachel, The University of Grenoble, France (28.12.2011): Using detrital thermochronologic
and cosmogenic data to understand the evolution of the modern Himalayan megafans.
Chaki, Anjan, Raja Ramanna Fellow, Atomic Minerals Directorate, Hyderabad (05.07.2011): Energy
options for the future – Indian Context.
Hyughe, Pascale, Institute of Earth Sciences, Grenoble, France (28.12.2011): Interaction of climate
and tectonics in Himalaya from the sedimentary record of the Siwalik foreland basin.
Kammerer, Christian F., American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA (01.04.2011):
Temporal Disparity in the Non-Mammalian Synapsids.
Bandyopadhyay, Somshubhro, Department of Physics, Bose Institute, Kolkata (25.11.2011): More

Nonlocality with less purity.
Berry V. Michael, University of Bristol, UK (15.03.2012): Variation on a theme of Aharonov and Bohm.
Bhamidipati, Chandrasekhar, Instituto de Fisica Teorica, Sao Paolo, Brazil (23.09.2011): Discrete
Statistical Models and Geometry of Space-time at Planck Scale.
Celerier, Marie-Noelle, Laboratoire Univers Th’eories (LUTH), Observatoire de Paris, Le Centre

national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), France (24.01.2012): Structure formation and cosmology
with inhomogeneous solutions of general relativity.
Graf H. Walter, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland (08.06.2011): Mixing
in Channels.
Ghosh, Sibasish, Department of Physics, Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai (23.09.2011):

Estimation of State Properties.
Gill, Tepper, Howard University, USA (06.03.2012): The correct Hilbert space for all formulations of
quantum theory.
Gill, Tepper, Howard University, USA (09.03.2012): The canonical proper-time approach to relativistic
electrodynamics and quantum theory.
134
Kurths, J., Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany (10.01.2012): Network of Networks and the Climate
System.
Pal, Anupam, Department of Biological Sciences and Bioengineering, Indian Institute of Technology,
Kanpur (22.06.2011): Role of Fluid Mechanics in Assessing Gastrointestinal Function and Disorder.
Rauch, Helmut, Vienna University, Austria (11.01.2012): Sbasic features of quantum physics studied
with Neutrons.
Sengupta, Indranil, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Texas, USA (30.05.2011):

Band pass concentration problem and a generalization of prolate spheroidal functions.
Chatterjee, S. International Centre for Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology, New Delhi (05.12.11):
Understanding relation between aberrant cell signaling and disease: experiment coupled with
mathematical model.
Ghosh, B.C., Indian Institue of Technology, Kharagpur (31.10.2011): Development of tea horticultural
spice crop model: An approach for land renovation, income and employment generation from marginal
wasteland in West Midnapur.
Greenhalgh, D. University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK (16.01.2012): Estimation of basic reproductive

numbers and evaluation of vaccination programs from age-structured serological profiles.
Guerekata, G.M., Morgan State University, Baltimore, USA (18.01.2012): Fractional calculus and
applications.
Hien Tran, North Carolina State University, USA, (08.07.2011): Biological System Modelling.
Majumder, B., University of Bayreuth, Germany (07.12.2011): Carbon sequestration for soil
conservation.
Mehra, S.P., Rajputana Society of Natural History, Udaipur (22.11.2011): Water Resource: Common
problems and sustainable solutions in wetland environment.
Mukherjee, J., Jadavpur University (22.12.2011): Bacterial Diversity of the Sundarbans and
biotechnological applications.
Singh, B.N., Birsa Agricultural University, Kanke, Ranchi (01.11.2011): Integrated farming system for
rainfed areas.
Human Genetics Unit
Bhattacharyay, Paramita, C & MB Division, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata (23.11.2011): A
new function for methyl CpG: creating binding sites for C/EBPα in promoters of some differentiation
induced genes.
Bose, Anamika, Molecular Medicine Division, Bose Institute, Kolkata (21.11.2011): Novel
Immunotherapeutic approaches for cancer management.
135
Chatterjee, Raghunath, Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health (NIH), USA (23.12.2011):
Genomics and Epigenetics: Role in genome regulation.
Karmakar, Surojit, Research Associate-Faculty, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology,

University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, USA (24.10.2011): Epigenetic regulation in skin
cancer: A new crosstalk between kinase and polycomb.
Lala, P.K., The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada (13.01.2012): Multi-faceted
roles of cox-2 in breast cancer progression including induction of stem like phenotype.
Sarkar Roy, Neeta, Institute of Biomedical Genomics, National Institute of Biomedical Genomics
(NIBMG), Kalyani, Nadia, (14.12.2011): Impact of Host genetics on the Vaccination Response and on
the Susceptibility to Natural infection.
Talukdar, Asoke K., Chief Scientific Officer, Gischickten Bioscience, Bangalore (28.04.2011):
Understanding life through NGS data.
Basu, Sujata, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi (10.08.2011):
Endogenous Human Capital Formation Distance to Frontier and Growth.
Banerjee, Sanjay, University of Nottingham, UK (21.09.2011): Intrinsic Cycles.
Banerjee, Suman, Nanyang Business School, Singapore (12.07.2011): Investment Effects of Dual
Class Shares.
Banerjee, Suman, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (20.12.2011): Legal-system Arbitrage

and Parent-Subsidiary Capital Structures.
Bhattacharya, Anindya, Department of Economics, University of York, UK (20.04.2011): Allocative

Efficiency and An Incentive Scheme for Research.
Bhattacharya, Debopam, Department of Economics, University of Oxford, UK (05.09.2011): A

Nonparametric Test of Fir Treatment with Application to University Admissions.
Breunig, Robert, Australian National University, Australia (09.02.2012): Wage Dispersion and Team
Performance: A Theoretical Model and Evidence from Baseball.
Chakrabarti, Avik, Department of Economics, College of Letters and Science, University of Wisconsin-
Milwaukee, USA (28.12.2011): North-South Trade and Skilled-Unskilled Wage Inequality: The Role of
Asymmetric Adjustment Costs.
Chatterjee, Debipriya, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA (28.06.2011): Endogenous Hierarchies

under Representational Concerns.
Chatterjee, Kalayan, Pennsylvania State University, USA (03.08.2011): Pre-electoral Coalitions and
Post-election Bargaining.
Chowdhury, M. Subhasish, School of Economics, University of East Anglia, UK (05.01. 2012): Top
Guns May Not Fire: Best-Shot Group Contests with Group-Specific Public Good Prizes.
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Das, Kaustav, Pennsylvania State University, USA (27.07.2011): Decentralised Bilateral Trading in
Markets with Incomplete Information.
Das, Kumar, Pranab, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Kolkata (15.09.2011): A Stochastic
Frontier Approach to Modelling Financial Constraints in Firms: An Application to India.
Dasgupta, Kunal, Department of Economics, University of Toronto, Canada (05.12.2011): Quality

Uncertainty and Intermediation in International Trade.
Dinda, Soumyananda, Chandragupta Institute of Management, Patna, Bihar (18.10.2011): Trade and
Environment: Does Globalization Increase Global Warming.
Gangopadhyay, Kausik, Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode, Kerala (25.10.2011): Extent of

Poverty in India: A Different Dimension.
Gupta, Ranjan, Department of Economics, University of Pretoria, South Africa (02.02.2012): Tax
Evasion Financial Development and Inflation: Theory and Empirical Evidence.
Mallik, Rajlaxmi, NSHM Business School, Kolkata (21.04.2011): Being Credit Rationed: Perception
and Transaction Cost.
Majumdar, Rumki, Infosys Technologies Limited, Bangalore (04.04.2011): The Story of Productivity in
the Indian Hardware Electronic Industry.
Mitra, Siddhartha, Jadavpur University, Kolkata (13.04.2011): New Approaches to Measuring

Inclusiveness.
Mukhopadhyay, Sankar, Department of Economics, University of Nevada, Reno, USA (19.10.2011):

From Illegal to Legal: The Wage Gain from Legalization.
Mukherjee, Debasri, Department of Economics, Western Michigan University, USA (22.12.2011):

Nonparametric Estimation of the Marginal Effects in Fixed-Effects Panel Models: An Application on the
Environmental Kuznets Curve.
Nils, Rudi, INSEAD Business School for the World, Singapore (25.11.2011): In-play Football
Prediction.
Sanyal, Suman, Department of Mathematics, Marshall University, USA (19.07.2011): Stochastic

Dynamic Equation.
Sen, Monalisa, Department of Economics, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA (14.07.2011):

Specification Tests for Panel Spatial Models with Misspecification.
Sengupta, Indranil, Department of Mathematical Sciences, The University of Texas – EI Paso, USA
(23.05.2011): Option Pricing with Transaction Costs and Stochastic Volatility in a Financial Market.
Tsubota, Kenmei, Economic Integration Studies Group, Institute of Developing Economies, Japan
External Trade Organization, Japan (12.02.2012): Geographical Simulation Analysis for Logistics
Enhancement in Asia.
Linguistics Research Unit
Guha, Nirmalya, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology,
Kanpur (10.10.2011): Victory of the Unblocked: A Glimpse of Indian Epistemology.
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Planning Unit
Araujo, Aloisio, Instituto Nacional De Matemática Pura e Aplicada (IMPA), Brazil (16.11.2011):
General Equilibrium, Wariness and Bubbles.
Bagde, Surendrakumar, Ministry of Finance, Govt. of India (18.11.2011): Dismantling the Legacy of
Caste: Affirmative Action in Indian Higher Education.
Baksi, Soham, University of Winnipeg, Canada (25.11.2011): Environmental Regulation in the

Presence of an Informal Sector.
Batabyal, Amitrajeet A., Rochester Institute of Technology, New York, USA (05.08.2011): Human
Capital Use, Innovative Activity, and Patent Protection in a Model of Regional Economic Growth.
Chatterjee, Kalyan, The Pennsylvania State University, USA (29.07.2011): Pre-electoral Coalitions and
post-election bargain.
Chattopadhyay, Siddhartha, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur (20.01.2012): Monetary Policy

Switching to Avoid a Liquidity Trap.
Deb, Rahul, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada (03.08.2011): Revealed Preference Tests of the
Cournot.
Demange, Gabrielle, Paris School of Economics, France (19.10.2011): A Ranking Method Based on
Handicaps.
Dubey, Pradeep, State University of New York, Stonybrook, USA (02.12.2011): The Allocation of a
Prize.
Forges, Francoise, University Paris-Dauphine, France (30.11.2011): Bayesian Games with Contracts.
Ghosh, Saptarshi P., University of Birmingham, UK (16.09.2011): Professional Advice from Randomly
Transparent Committees.
Gunay, Hikmet, University of Manitoba, Canada (10.02.2012): Exposure Problem in Multi-Unit

Auctions.
Haimanko, Ori, Ben-Gurion University, Beersheva, Israel (21.10.2011): Characterization of the

Shapley-Shubik Power Index without the Efficiency Axiom.
Jain, Monica, University of California, Riverside, USA (19.08.2011): India’s Struggle against
malnutrition – Is the ICDS program the answer?
Keister, Todd, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, USA (13.01.2012): Bailouts and Financial Fragility.
Lamba, Rohit, Princeton University, New Jersey, USA (09.01.2012): Dynamic Contracts Under
Persistent Private Information: A Research Agenda.
Laubach, Thomas, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany (06.01.2012): Long-run growth expectations
and global imbalances.
Mongin, Philippe, HEC Paris, France (30.11.2011): Approval Voting and Arrow's Impossibiltiy
Theorem.
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Moorty, Sridhar, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada (06.01.2012): Can Brand Extension Signal
Product Quality?
Mukherjee, Rahul, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland
(03.02.2012): Fire Sale FDI or Business as Usual.
Mutreja, Piyusha, Syracuse University, New York, USA (16.05.2011): Capital Goods Trade and
Economic Development.
Panchenko, Valentyn, University of New South Wales, Kensington, Australia (21.04.2011): Efficient
Estimation of Parameters in Marginals in Semi parametric Multivariate Models.
Paul, Sourabh Bikas, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada (24.02.2012): Breaking the
Caste Barrier: Intergenerational Mobility in India.
Ramadorai, Tarun, University of Oxford, England, UK (30.09.2011): Asset Fire Sales and purchases
and the International Transmission of funding Shocks.
Randall, Akee, Tufts University, Medford, USA (22.07.2011): Remittances and Rashomon.
Kapur, Devesh, University of Pennsylvania, USA (22.07.2011): Remittances and Rashomon.
Roy, Sanchari, Warwick University, Coventry, USA (12.04.2011): Empowering Women: Inheritance
Right and Female Education in India.
Rudi, Nils, INSEAD – The Business School for the World, Singapore (14.10.2011): In-play football
prediction.
Sareen, Samita, Berkeley Research Group, New York, USA (27.01.2012): Commodity Bundling in
Government Securities Auctions.
Sharma, Shrutivandana, Yahoo! Labs (14.03.2012): Auctions for Social Advertising.
Spears Dean, E., Princeton University, New Jersey, USA (23.03.2012): Preliminary evidence of an
effect of India's Total Sanitation Campaign on early life health.
Stiglitz, Joseph E. (Nobel Laureate), Columbia University, New York, USA (03.11.2011): Sectoral
Dislocations and Long Run Crises.
Stiglitz, Joseph E. (Nobel Laureate), Columbia University, New York, USA (04.11.2011): Economic
Transformation and Learning: Insights for India.
Tandon, Sharad, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, DC (23.09.2011): Election outcomes

and the Poor: Evidence from the Consumption of Scheduled castes and Tribes in India.
Vig, Jyoti, University of Minnesota, USA (03.02.2012): Information Technology and Indian Economy.
Winter, Eyal, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel (09.12.2011): How to Throw a Party: Multi-Agent
Contracting with Type Dependent Externalities.
Zimmermann, Laura, University of Michigan, USA (11.11.2011): Remember When It Rained: The
Elusiveness of Gender Discrimination in Indian School Enrollment.
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Mishra, U., Centre for Development Studies, Trivandrum, Kerala (04.04.2011): Gauging Induced
Abortion among Indian Women: An Alternative Approach.
Biswas, Suddhendu, School of Insurance & Actuarial Science, Amity University, Noida (26.07.2011): A
Method of Construction of Multiple Increment-Decrement Table of HIV Population.
Majumdar, Atreyi, University of Delhi, Delhi (20.02.2012): Challenges of Ageing for Immigrants from
India in the UK.
Majumdar, Atreyi, University of Delhi, Delhi (21.02.2012): Socio-economic Implications of International

Movements of Human Resource with Special Reference to a Case Study of Professional Indian
Immigrants in the UK.
Dixit, Anita, Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford, UK (03.06.2011): A study of the public distribution
system in Tamil Nadu, 2005-10.
Yokokawa, Nobuharu, Musahi University, Tokyo, Japan (16.02.2012): The Renaissance of Asia and
the Emerging World System.

Basu, A., Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur (25.10.2011): Words in the Mind- An Application
and Many Queries.
Cesar Jr., Roberto M., University of Sao Paulo (USP), Brazil (11.10.2011): Inexact graph matching for
interactive image segmentation: single and multiple images.
Chakrabarti, P., Bose Institute, Kolkata (25.10.2011): Identification of the active site cleft in enzymes
and the interface region in DNA-binding proteins.
Ghosh, A, Bengal Engineering and Science University, Shibpur (15.09.2011): An Engineer’s Revisit to
Newton’s Laws: Some Amazing Consequences.
Lopes, Fabricio M., UTFPR-Federal University of Technology- Parana, Brazil (12.10.2011): Inference
of gene regulatory networks from time series by Tsallis entropy.
Narayan, B.L., Yahoo India, Bangalore (22.07.2011): Adaptive Policies for Selecting Groupon Style
Chunked Reward Ads in a Stochastic Knapsack Framework.
Pagliani, P., Research Group on Knowledge and Communication Models, Rome, Italy (24.11.2011):
Relation Algebra and Rough Set Implementation.
Saha, H., Bengal Engineering and Science University, Shibpur (29.02.2012): Photovoltaic Solar
Energy Conversion for Large Scale Applications.
Saha, P.K., University of Iowa, Iowa, USA (06.01.2012): Multi-Scale Topo-morphologic Approaches to
Medical Imaging.
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5. SANKHYĀ
The internationally renowned journal Sankhyā, an official publication of the Indian Statistical Institute, was
founded by Professor P.C. Mahalanobis in 1932 and began publication under his editorship. It is devoted to
original research articles in Probability, Mathematical Statistics and Applied Statistics. Reviews and
discussion articles on current research activity in the above areas are also published. A rigorous peer
review process is followed for acceptance of articles submitted for publication in Sankhyā. Many seminal
articles in Probability, Theoretical Statistics and Applied Statistics have appeared in Sankhyā. The journal is
published in two separate series – Series A and Series B. Series A with two issues per year, one in February
and the other in August, covers Probability and Theoretical Statistics, while Series B with two issues per
year, one in May and the other in November, covers Applied and Interdisciplinary Statistics.
Beginning 2010, Springer has entered into a co-publication agreement with the Institute and has exclusive
rights for the international distribution of the journal. The editorial system is now completely electronic, that
is, the entire process starting from submission of articles to editorial processing ending in final editorial
decision for articles is now done online.
The following issues have been published during April 2011 to March 2012:
February 2011 : Volume 73 Part I, Series A [Both Electronic and Print Editions]
May 2011 : Volume 73 Part I, Series B [Both Electronic and Print Editions]
August 2011 : Volume 73 Part II, Series A [Electronic Edition, Print Editions]
November 2011 : Volume 73 Part II, Series B [Electronic Edition, Print Editions]
The following issues are currently under process for publication:
February 2012 : Volume 74 Part I, Series A

November 2012 : Volume 74 Part I, Series B
The present Editorial Board of Sankhyā is as follows:
Editor-in-Chief : B. L. S. Prakasa Rao
Editors: Series A : Alok Goswami, Sourav Chatterjee, Hemant Ishawaran, Subhashis Ghosal
Editors: Series B : Atanu Biswas, Nilanjan Chatterjee, Hemant Ishwaran, Lijian Yang
Senior Editorial Assistant: Kajal Dihidar
Technical Support : Urmichhanda Bhattacharya
Editorial Office Support : Prasanta Kumar Sen, Ranjit Mandal, Kajal De
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Books Published
Bapat, R.B.: Linear Algebra and Linear Models, Hindustan Book Agency, New Delhi and Springer,
Third Edition, pages 167, 2012.
Basu, Ayanendranath, Shioya, H. and Park, C.: Statistical Inference: The Minimum Distance
Approach, Chapman & Hall/CRC Press, 2011.
Chaudhuri, B.B.: A Few Articles on Language Technology (In Bengali), Ananda Publishers, Kolkata,
2012.
Munshi, U.M. and Chaudhuri, B.B. (eds.): Multimedia Information Extraction & Digital Heritage
Preservation, World Scientific, Singapore, 2011.
Patel, D. and Madalli, D.P.: Information retrieval in Indian languages: a case study of Telugu
language, Lambert Academic Publishing, Germany, pages 208, ISBN: 978-3-8433-6995-4, 2011.
Pal. S.: Systems Programming, Oxford University Press, pages 728, ISBN-13: 9780-19-8070887,
2011.
Panigrahi, B.K., Suganthan, P.N., Das. S. and Satapathy, S.C. (eds.): Proceedings of
the Second International Conference on Swarm and Evolutionary Computation (Part I & II) (SEMCCO
2011), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, 2011.
Mudengudi, U. and Mukherjee. D.P. (eds.): Proceedings of NCVPRIPG-2011, Hubly, Karnataka,

IEEE CS Society Press, USA, 2011.
142
Publications
Kundu, M.K., Mitra, S., Majumder, D. and Pal, S.K. (eds.): Perception and Machine Intelligence,
Lecture Notes in Computer Science Vol. 7143, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, ISBN No.978-3-642-27386-5,
pages 380, 2012.
Kuznetsov, S.O., Mandal, D.P., Kundu, M.K. and Pal, S.K. (eds.): Pattern Recognition and
Machine Intelligence, Lecture Notes in Computer Science Vol. 6744, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, ISBN
No.978-3-642-21785-2, pages 474, 2011.
Maji, P. and Pal, S.K.: Rough-Fuzzy Pattern Recognition: Applications in Bioinformatics and Medical
Imaging, John Wiley & Sons Inc., IEEE Computer Society Press, New Jersey, ISBN: 978-1-1180-
0440-1, pages 312, 2012.
Maulik, U., Bandyopadhyay, S. and Mukhopadhyay, A.: Multiobjective Genetic Algorithms for
Clustering: Applications in Data Mining and Bioinformatics, Springer, Heidelberg, pages 281, 2011.
Geological Studies unit
Ghosh, P. (ed.) : Numerical Methods and Models in Earth Science, New India Publishing Agency, New
Delhi, pages 144, 2011.
Mazumder, R. and Saha, D. (eds.): Palaeoproterozoic of India, Geological Society, London, Special
Publication No. 365, pages 288, 2012.
Paul, B.K. and Moulik, S.P. (eds.): Recent Trends in Colloid and Surface Science, World Scientific
Publishing Co., Singapore, pages 428, 2012.
Ghosh, C. and Ghosh, A.: Macroeconomics, Prentice Hall of India Learning Private Limited, New
Delhi, pages 421, 2011.
Mitra, Manipushpak, Abergel, Frederic, Chakrabarti, Bikas, K., and Chakraborti,

Anirban (eds.): Econophysics of Order-driven Market, New Economic Window Series, Springer Italia,
Italy, 2011.
Pal, M., Pathak, P. (PSU), Bharati, P. (BAU), Ghosh, B. (SRU) and Majumder, Amita (eds.): Gender
Issues and Empowerment of Women, NOVA Publishers, ISBN: 978-1-62100-464-6, 2012.
Camacho, Jorge, Dasgupta, Probal and Ertl, István: Beletra Almanako 11, Mondial, New York,
2011.
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2011.
2012.
Dasgupta, Probal: Loghi en Homaj Lingvoj: La Substancisma Perspektivo, Mondial, New York, 2011.
Dasgupta, Probal: Inhabiting Human Languages: the Substantivist Visualization, Samskriti on behalf of
the Indian Council of Philosophical Research, New Delhi, 2011.
Dasgupta, Probal: Chinno kathaay shaajaaye taroni, Gangchil, Kolkata, 2011.
Dash, Niladri Sekhar: Language and Linguistics, Heritage Publishers, New Delhi, ISBN: 817026270-4,
pages 291+HB, 2011.
Planning Unit
Ghate, Chetan: The Oxford Handbook of the Indian Economy, Oxford University Press, New York,
2012.
Ghosh, Bholanath and De, U.K. (eds.): Gender Deprivation and Empowerment of women: An Indian
Perspective, Lap Lambert Academic Publishing GmbH & Co. KG, Dudweiler Landstr, 2011.
SQC & OR Unit, Chennai
Biswas, Amit K.: Cooperative Games and Their Solutions: Their definitions, construction and
properties, Lambert Academic Publishing, pages 144, 2011.
Library, Kolkata
Raychaudhury, Arup: Information and Communication Technology for Library Professional, World
Press, Kolkata, pages 257, ISBN: 978-81-87567-94-3, 2012.
Library, Delhi
Dhawan, S.M., Khatri, N.K. and Ratnakar, A. (eds.): Metrics Based Research Assessment and
Evaluation, Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi, ISBN: 9789350675014, 2012.
144
Publications
Chakraborty, M.K.: Goedel-er Asampurnata Tatva, A Book on Godels’ Incompleteness Theorem in

Bengali Language, Nandimukh Samsad, Kolkata, 2012.
Pal, S.K., Petrosino, A. and Maddalena, L. (eds.): Handbook on Soft Computing for Video
Surveillance, Chapman & Hall/CRC, Boca Raton, Florida, 2012.
Papers Published in Journals
Banerjee, Sayan and Bose, Arup: Noncrossing partitions, Catalan words and the semicircle law,
Journal of Theoretical Probability, Online Version: DOI: 10.1007/s10959-011-0365-4, 2011.
Barua, Rana, Chakravarty, Satya, R. and Sarkar, Palash: Measuring P-Power of Voting, Journal of
Economic Theory and Social Development, 1(1), 81-91, 2011.
Basak, Anirban and Bose, Arup: Limiting spectral distribution of some band matrices, Periodica
Mathematica Hungarica, 43(1), 113-150, Online Version: DOI: 10.1007/s10998-011-7113-5, 2011.
Bhatwadekar, S.M. and Gupta, Neena: On locally quasi A* algebras in codimension-one over a
Noetherian normal domain, Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra, 215, 2242-2256, 2011.
Bhatwadekar, S.M. and Gupta, Neena: The structure of a Laurent polynomial fibration in n
variables, Journal of Algebra, 353, 42-157, 2012.
Bhowmick, Jyotishman and Goswami, Debashish: Adam Skalski: Quantum isometry groups of 0-
dimensional manifolds, Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, 363(2), 901-921, 2011.
Bose, Arup and Gangopadhyay, Sreela: Asymptotic properties of near Pfeifer records, Extremes, 14,
253—265, Online Version: DOI: 10.1007/s10687-010-0108-4, 2011.
Bose, Arup, Guha, Suman, Hazra, Rajat Subhra and Saha, Koushik: Circulant type matrices with
heavy tailed entries, Statistics and Probability Letters, 81, 1706-1716, 2011.
Bose, Arup, Hazra, Rajat Subhra and Saha, Koushik: Poisson convergence of eigenvalues of circulant
type matrices, Extremes, 14(4), 365-392, Online Version: DOI: 10.1007/s10687-010-0115-5, 2011.
Bose, Arup, Hazra, Rajat Subhra and Saha, Koushik: Half independence and half cumulants,
Electronic Communications in Probability, 16(37), 405-422, 2011.
Bose, Arup, Hazra, Rajat Subhra and Saha, Koushik: Convergence of joint moments for independent
random patterned matrices, Annals of Probability, 39(4), 1607-1620, Online Version: DOI:10.1214/10-
AOP597, 2011.
Bose, Arup and Sen, Sanchayan: Finite diagonal random matrices, Journal of Theoretical Probability,
Online Version: DOI: 10.1007/s10959-011-0378-z, 2011.
145
Publications
Das, Biswarup, Goswami, Debashish and Joardar, Soumalya: Quantum Brownian Motions on Non-
Commutative Manifolds: Construction, Deformation and Exit Times, Communications in Mathematical
Physics, 309(1), 193-228, 2012.
Das, Mrinal, Kanti and Sridharan, Raja: Euler class groups and a theorem of Roitman, Journal of
Pure and Applied Algebra, 215, 1340-1347, 2011.
Das, Mrinal, Kanti: Revisiting Nori's question and homotopy invariance of Euler class groups, Journal
of K-theory, 8, 451-480, 2011.
Das, Prosenjit and Dutta, Amartya, Kumar: On Codimension-one A1-fibration with retraction, Journal of
Commutative Algebra, 3(2), 207-224, 2011.
n-a
Das, Prosenjit and Dutta, Amartya, Kumar: Planes of the form b(X,Y) Z (X,Y) over a DVR, Journal
of Commutative Algebra, 3(4), 491-509, 2011.
Dasgupta, R.: On the distribution of burr with applications, Sankhya B, 73, 1–19, Online Version: DOI:
10.1007/s13571-011-0015-y, 2011.
Datta, Mahuya: Partial Isometries of a Sub-Riemannian Manifold, International Journal of

Mathematics, 23(2), 11-31, 2012.
Dhar, S.S. and Chaudhuri, P.: On the statistical efficiency of robust estimators of multivariate location,
Statistical Methodology, 8, 113-128, 2011.
Dhar, S. and Chaudhuri, P.: On the derivatives of trimmed mean, Statistica Sinica, 22. 655-679, 2012.
Dutta, A.K., Gupta, Neena and Onoda, N.: Some Patching Results on Algebras over Two-
Dimensional Factorial Domains, Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra, 216, 1667-1679, 2012.
Dutta, S. Ghosh, A.K. and Chaudhuri, P.: Some intriguing properties of Tukey's half space depth,
Bernoulli Society for Mathematical Statistics and Probability, 17(4), 1420-1434, 2011.
Goswami, Debashish: Some remarks on the action of quantum isometry groups, Aspects
Mathematics, Wieweg-Teubner, Wiesbaden, E 41, 96-103, 2011.
Pandey, Sumit and Barua, Rana: Efficient Construction of Identity Based Signcryption Schemes from
ID Based Encryption and Signature Schemes, Journal of Internet Services and Information, 1(2/3),
161-180, 2011.
Bandyopadhyay, Antar: Endogeny for the Logistic Recursive Distributional Equation, Journal for
Analysis and its Applications (ZAA), 30(2), 237-251, 2011.
Bapat, R.B.: On the first passage time of a simple random walk on a tree, Statistics and Probability
Letters, 81, 1552-1558, 2011.
Bapat, R.B. and Sivasubramanian, S.: Inverse of the distance matrix of a block graph, Linear and
Multilinear Algebra, 59(12), 1393-1397, 2011.
Bapat, R.B.: A note on singular line graphs, Bulletin of Kerala Mathematics Association, 8(2), 207-209,
2011.
146
Publications
Bhatia, R. and Sharma, R.: Some inequalities for positive linear maps, Linear Algebra and Its
Applications, 436, 1562-1571, 2012.
Bhatia, R. and Li, R-C.: An interpolating family of means, Communications on Stochatic Analysis, 6,
15-31, 2012.
Bose, Mausumi, Dey, Aloke and Mukerjee, Rahul: Key predistribution schemes for distributed
sensor networks via block designs, Designs, and Codes and Cryptography, 1-26, Online Version: DOI:
10.1007/s10623-011-9590-1, 2011.
Chakrabarty, A.: Effect of truncation on large deviations for heavy-tailed random vectors, Stochastic
Processes and their Applications, 122, 623-653, 2012.
Chakrabarty A. and Samorodnitsky, G.: Understanding heavy tails in a bounded world or, is a
truncated heavy tail heavy or not? Stochastic Models, 28, 109-143, 2012.
Chakrabarty, A.: Asymptotic normality of Hill estimator for truncated data, Electronic Journal of
Probability, 16, 2039-2058, 2011.
Chakrabarty, A. and Meerschaert, M.M.: Tempered stable laws as random walk limits, Statistics
and Probability Letters, 81, 989-997, 2011.
Chatterjee, Arindam and Lahiri, S.N.: Bootstrapping Lasso estimators, Journal of the American
Statistical Association, 106 (494), 608- 625, 2011.
Chaubey, Y.P., Dewan, Isha and Li, Jun: An asymmetric kernel estimator of density function for
stationary associated sequences, Communications in Statistics - Simulation and Computation, 41(4),
554-572, 2012.
Das, Sarbashis, Duggal, Priyanka, Roy, Rahul, Myneedu, Vithal P., Behera,
Digambar, Prasad, Hanumanthapp K., Bhattacharya, Alok: Identification of Hot and Cold
spots in genome of Mycobacterium tuberculosis using Shewhart Control Charts, Scientific Reports, 2,
Online Version: http://www.nature.com/srep/2012/120302/srep00297/abs/srep00297
html|#supplementary-information, 2012,
Dasgupta, Amites, Roy, Rahul and Sarkar, Anish: Geometry of the poisson boolean model on a region
of logarithmic width in the plane, Advances in Applied Probability, 43(3), 616-635, 2011.
Dey, Aloke: On the construction of two-level fractional factorial designs when some combinations are
debarred, Journal of the Indian Society of Agricultural Statistics, 65(2), 221-224, 2011.
Dewan, Isha, Bedford, Tim, Meilijson, Isaac, Zitrou, Athena: The signal model: A
model for competing risks of opportunistic maintenance, European Journal of Operations Research,
214, 665-673, 2011.
Dewan, Isha and Somanathan, Rohini: The applications of nonparametric test to poverty targeting,
Economic Letters, 113, 58-61, 2011.
Dewan, Isha and Jain, Kanchan: Joint Reliability Importance of series-parallel system, International
Journal of Reliability and Applications, 12, 103-116, 2011.
Dewan, Isha, Jain, Kanchan, and Rani, Monika: On conditional marginal and conditional joint
reliability importance, International Journal of Reliability, Quality and Safety Engineering, 18, 119-138,
2011.
147
Publications
Filaseta,M., Laishram, S. and Saradha, N.: Solving n(n+d ) ... (n+(k-1)d) = b y2 with P(b ) ≤ Ck
International Journal of Number Theory, 8, 161-173, 2012.
Hare, K., Laishram, S. and Stoll, T.: On the sum of digits of n and n2, International Journal of
Number Theory, 7, 1737-1752, 2011.
Khanduja, S.K., Khassa, R., and Laishram, S.: Some irreducibility results for truncated
binomial expansions, Journal of Number Theory, 131, 300-308, 2011.
Knouf, Emily C., Garg, Kavita, Arroyo, Jason D., Correa, Yesenia, Sarkar,
Deepayan, Parkin, Rachael K., Wurz, Kaitlyn, O'Briant, Kathy C., Godwin,
Andrew K., Urban, Nicole D., Ruzzo, Walter L., Gentleman, Robert,
Drescher, Charles W., Swisher, Elizabeth and Tiwari, Muneesh: An integrative
genomic approach identifies p73 and p63 as activators of miR-200 microRNA family transcription,
Nucleic Acids Research, 1–12, Online Version: DOI:10.1093/nar/gkr731,
(link:http://nar.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2011/09/14/nar.gkr731.full.pdf+html), 2011.
Kundu, Debasis, Bai, Zhidong, Nandi, Swagata and Bai, Li: Super efficient frequency
estimation, Journal of statistical planning and inference, 141(8), 2576-2588, 2011.
Laishram, S. and Shorey T.N.: Extensions of Schur's irreducibility results, Indagationes

Mathematicae, 21(1-2), 87-105, 2011.
Singh, Ajit Iqbal: Involutions on the second duals of group algebras versus subamenable groups,
Studia Mathematica, 206(1), 51-62, 2011.
Amdeberhan, Tewodros, Angelis, Valerio De, Lin, Minghua, Moll, Victor H. and
Sury, B.: A pretty binomial identity, Elemente der Mathematik, 67, 18-25, 2012.
Athreya, Siva R., Sun, Rongfeng,: One dimensional voter model interface revisited, Electronic
Communications in Probability, 16, 792-800, 2011.
Athreya, Siva R., Sethuraman,Sunder and Toth, Balint: On the Range, local times and
periodicity of random walk on an interval, Latin American Journal of Probability and Mathematical
Statistics, VIII, 269-284, 2011.
Bagchi, Bhaskar, Datta, Basudeb: From the icosahedron to natural triangulations of CP2 and S2 ×
S2, Discrete Computational Geometry, 46(3), 542–560, 2011.
Bagchi, Bhaskar; Datta, Basudeb: On Walkup’s class K(d) and a minimal triangulation of (S3 : S1)#3,
Discrete Mathematics, 311(12), 989–995, 2011.
Belbachir, Hacene, Rahmani, Mourad, and Sury, B.: Alternating Sums of the reciprocals of
binomial coefficients, Journal of Integer Sequences, 15, 2012.
Belbachir, Hacene, Rahmani, Mourad and Sury, B.: Sums involving moments of reciprocals of
binomial coefficients, Journal of Integer Sequences, 14, 2011.
Bhat, B.V. Rajarama: Linear maps respecting unitary conjugation, Banach Journal of
Mathematical Analysis, 5(2), 1-5, 2011.
148
Publications
Bhat, B.V. Rajarama: Roots of states, Communications on Stochastic Analysis, 6(1), 85-93, 2012.
Douglas, Ronald G., Misra, Gadadhar and Sarkar, Jaydeb: Contractive Hilbert modules and
their dilations, Israel Journal of Mathematics, 187(1), 141-165, 2012.
Douglas, Ronald G., Foias, Ciprian and Sarkar, Jaydeb: Resolutions of Hilbert Modules and
Similarity, Journal of Geometric Analysis, 22(2), 471-490, 2012.
Gorai, Sushil: Local polynomial convexity of the union of two totally-real surfaces at their intersection,
Manuscripta Mathematics, 135(1-2), 43-62, 2011.
Mason, Alec W. and Sury, B.: Subgroups of algebraic groups which are clopen in the S-congruence
topology, Journal of Group Theory, 15, 47-55, 2012.
Ramasubramanian, S.: Multidimensional insurance model with risk-reducing treaty, Stochastic Models,
27(3), 363-387, 2011.
Ramasubramanian, S.: A multidimensional ruin problem.Communications on Stochastic Analysis, 6(1),

33-47, 2012.
Sankaran Parameswaran, and Thakur, Ajay Singh: Complex structures on products of circle
bundles over complex manifolds, Comptes Rendus Mathématiques de l'Académie des Sciences Paris,
349(7-8), 437–439, 2011.
Sastry, N.S.Narasimha, and Shukla, R.P.: Multiplicities of simple modules in the Sp(4,q)-
permutation module on P(3,q), q even, Archiv der Mathematik (Basel), 97(3), 237–245, 2011.
Smolensky, A.V., Sury, B. and Vavilov, N.A.: Gauss decomposition for Chevalley groups -
Revisited, International Journal of Group Theory, 1(1), 3-16, 2012.
Smolensky, A.V., Sury, B. and Vavilov, N.A.: Unitriangular factorizations of Chevalley groups,
Zapiski Nauchnyh Seminarov POMI, Springer, 388, 17-47, 2011.
Sury, B.: Uncountably generated ideals of functions, College Mathematics Journal, 42(5), 404-406,
2011.
Sury, B.: Riemann Hypothesis - the Prime Problem, Mathematics Newsletter of the Ramanujan
Mathematical Society, 48-62, 2011.
Sury, B.: Weierstrass's theorem - leaving no Stone unturned, Resonance, 16(4), 341-355, 2011.
Sury, B.: Group theory and tiling problems, Symmetry: A multi-disciplinary Perspective, Ramanujan
Mathemetical Society Lecture Notes Series, 16, 97-117, 2012.
Sury, B.: Group theory - what's beyond? Math Unlimited, Essays in Mathematics, Science Publishers,
3-22, 2012.
Sury, B.: A walk which must be rational for the same reason that 1 is not congruent, Resonance, 17(1),
1-7, 2012.
Sury, B.: Covering the integers, Resonance, 17(3), 76-82, 2012.
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Bose, M., Chaudhuri, A., Dihidar, K. and Das, S.: Model-cum-design-based estimation of the
prevalence rate of a disease in a locality using spatial smoothing, Statistics, 45, 293-305. 2011.
Canright, D., Gangopadhyay, S., Maitra, S., Stanica, P.: Laced Boolean functions and
subset sum problems in finite fields, Discrete Applied Mathematics, 159(11), 1059-1069, 2011.
Chaudhuri, A., Bose, M. and Dihidar, K.: Estimation of a sensitive proportion by Warner's randomized
response data through inverse sampling, Statistical Papers, 52, 343-354, 2011.
Chaudhuri, A., Bose, M. and Dihidar, K.: Estimating sensitive proportions by Warner's randomized
response technique using multiple randomized responses from distinct persons sampled, Statistical
Papers, 52, 111-124, 2011.
Dewanji, A., Sengupta, D. and Chakraborty, A.K.: A discrete time model for software reliability
with application to a flight control software, Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry, 27(6),
723-731, 2011.
Ghosh P. and Dewanji A.: Analysis of spontaneous adverse drug reaction (ADR) reports using
supplementary Information, Statistics in Medicine, 30, 2040-2055, 2011.
Hassan, Sk. S., Palchoudhury, P. and Bose, A.: A Quantitative Model for Human Olfactory
Receptors, Nature Precedings, Online Version: DOI:10.1038/npre.2012.6967.2, 2011.
Hassan, Sk. S., Palchoudhury, P., Pal, A. (BIRU), Brahmachary, L.R. and Goswami, A.
(AERU): Combination of L-Systems: For Designing Human Olfactory Receptor Pseudo-gene,
OR1D3P, International Journal of Computational Cognition, 9(2), 82-84, 2011.
Maitra, S., Paul, G., Raizada, S., Sen, S. and Sengupta, R.: Some observations on HC-
128, Designs, Codes and Cryptography, 59(1-3), 231-245, 2011.
Palchoudhury, P., Hassan, Sk. Sarif, Sahoo, S. and Nayak, Kr. B.: Act of CVT and EVT
in the Formation of Number Theoretic Fractals, International Journal of Computational Cognition, 9(1),
83-90, 2011.
Pradhan, B and Dewanji, A.: Semiparametric estimation of quality adjusted lifetime distribution in
semi-Markov illness-death model, Sankhya, Series B, 73, 81-104, 2011.
Sahoo, S. and Sengupta, D.: Some diagnostic plots and corrective adjustments for the proportional
hazards regression model, Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, 20(2), 375–394, 2011.
Somindu, C.R., and Sarkar, P.: On Quantifying the Resistance of Concrete Hash Functions to Generic
Multicollision Attacks, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 57(7), 4798-4816, 2011.
Srivastava, R. and Sengupta, D.: Effect of inter-sample spacing constraint on spectrum estimation with
irregular sampling, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 57(7), 4709-4719, 2011.
Sarkar, S. and Maitra, S.: Approximate Integer Common Divisor Problem Relates to Implicit
Factorization, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 57(6), 4002-4013, 2011.
150
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Bhattacharya, S., Mukhopadhyay, S. and Dihidar, K.: On Bayesian Central Clustering: Application
to Landscape Classification of Western Ghats, Annals of Applied Statistics, 5, 1948-1977, 2011.
Bhattacharya, S., and Maitra, R. : A Nonstationary Nonparametric Bayesian Approach to

Dynamically Modeling Effective Connectivity in Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Experiments,
Annals of Applied Statistics, 5, 1183-1206, 2011.
Bhattacharya, S., Chakraborty, S., Chattopadhyay, J., and Basu, Ayanendranath: On

stochastic differential equations and equilibrium distribution: A conditional moment approach,
Environmental and Ecological Statistics, 18, 687–708, 2011.
Mandal, A., and Basu, Ayanendranath: Multinomial goodness-of-fit tests under inlier modification,
Electronic Journal of Statistics, 5, 1846–1875, 2011.
Saharay, Rita and Shah, Kirti: Two period Repeated Measurements Designs for comparing
Simple Mixed Carryover effects, Journal of Statistical Theory and Applications, 10, 259-278, 2011.
Srinivasa, Rao, Arni S.R., Thomas, K., Sudhakar, K. and Bhat, R.: Improvements in survival
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of people living with HIV/AIDS and requirement for 1 line and 2 line ART in India: A Mathematical
Model, Notices of the American Mathematical Society, 59(4), 560-562, 2012.
Srinivasa, Rao, Arni S.R.: Understanding theoretically the impact of reporting of disease cases in
epidemiology, Journal of Theoretical Biology, 302(7), 89-95, 2012.
Srinivasa Rao, Arni S.R.: Biometric Cards for Indian Population: Role of Mathematical Models in
Assisting and Planning, Asian Population Studies, 7(3), 295-300, 2011.
North-East Centre
Ghosh, P.P. and Mitra, Biswajit: Hard Pseudocompact Spaces, Quaestiones Mathematicae, 35, 1-17,
2012.
Ahmed, M., Maheshwari, A., Roy, S. and Nandy, S.C.: On the number of shortest
descending paths on the surface of a convevex terrain, Journal of Discrete Algorithms, 9(2), 182-189,
2011.
Banerjee, A., Ray, Dasgupta, S., Chakrabarti, P.P., Ramesh, S. and Ganesan,
P.V.V.: A Dynamic Assertion-based Verification Platform for Validation of UML designs, In ACM
SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes (SEN), 37(1), 1-14, 2012.
Banerjee, S., Mathew, J., Pradhan, D.K., Mohanty, S. P. and Bhattacharya, B.B.: A
routing-aware ILS design technique, IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems (TVLSI), 19(12), 2335-2338,
2011.
151
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Bhattacharya, B.B. and Das, S.: Holes or Empty Pseudo-Triangles in Planar Point Sets, Moscow
Journal of Combinatorics and Number Theory, 2(1), 16-46, 2012.
Bhattacharya, B.B. and Das, S.: On the minimum size of a point set containing a 4-Hole and a
disjoint 5-Hole, Studia Scientarium Mathematica Hungarica, 48(4), 445-457, 2011.
Bhowmick, P., Biswas, A. and Bhattacharya, B.B.: On the representation of a digital contour
with an unordered point set for visual perception, Journal of Visual Communication and Image
Representation, Elsevier, 22(7), 590-605, 2011.
Das, S., Banerjee, A. and Dasgupta, P.: Early Analysis of Critical Faults: An Approach to Test
Generation from Formal Specifications, IEEE Transactions on Computer Aided Design (TCAD), 31(3),
447-451, 2012.
Dutt, M., Biswas, A., Bhowmick, P. and Bhattacharya, B.B.: On finding an orthogonal
convex skull of a digital object, International Journal of Imaging Systems and Technology, John Wiley,
21, 14-27, 2011.
Dutt, M., Sarkar, A., Biswas, A., Bhowmick, P. and Bhattacharya, B.B.: A fast and
efficient algorithm for word segmentation and baseline detection in handwritten documents using
isothetic covers, International Journal of Digital Library Systems, 2(3), 1-13, 2011.
Ghosh, S.C., Whitaker, R.M., Allen, S.M. and Hurley, S.: Optimising CDMA cell
planning with soft handover, Wireless Personal Communications, Springer, Online Version: DOI:
10.1007/s11277-011-0454-9, 2011.
Mitra, D., Ghoshal, S., Rahaman, H., Chakrabarty, K. and Bhattacharya, B.B.: Test
planning in digital microfluidic biochips using efficient eulerization techniques, Journal of Electronic
Testing: Theory and Applications, Springer, 27(5), 657-671, 2011.
Mondal, D., Kumar, A., Bishnu, A., Mukhopadhyaya, K. and Nandy, S.C.: Measuring the Quality
of Surveillance in a Wireless Sensor Network, International Journal of Foundations of Computer
Science, 22(4), 983-998, 2011.
Rahaman, H., Kole, D.K., Das, D.K. and Bhattacharya B. B.: Fault diagnosis under missing-
gate fault model in reversible circuits, Computers and Electrical Engineering, Elsevier, 37(4), 475-485,
2011.
Saha, D. and Sur-Kolay, S.: Secure Public Verifcation of IP Mraks in FPGA Design through a Zero-
Knowledge Protocol, IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration Systems, Online Version:
DOI: 10.1109/TVLSI.2011.21623472011.
Saha, D. and Sur-Kolay S.: SoC: A Real Platform for IP Reuse, IP Infringement, and IP Protection,
Very Large Scale Integration Design, Article ID 731957, 10, Online Version:
DOI:10.1155/2011/731957, 2011.
Sen Gupta, S., Chattopadhyay, A., Sinha, K., Maitra, S. and Sinha, B.P.: High
performance hardware implementation for RC4 stream cipher, IEEE Transactions on Computers,
Online Version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TC.2012.19, 2012.
Sinha, K., Sinha B.P. and Dutta, D.: An energy-efficient communication scheme for wireless
networks: a redundant radix-based approach, IEEE Transactions Wireless Communications, 10(2),
530-539, 2011.
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Zhao, Y., Chakrabarty K. and Bhattacharya, B.B.: Testing of low-cost digital microfluidic
biochips with non-regular array layouts, Journal of Electronic Testing: Theory and Applications,
Springer, 28(2), 243-255, 2012.
Alireza, Alaei, Nagabhushan, P. and Pal, Umapada: Piece-wise Painting Technique for Line
Segmentation of Unconstrained Handwritten Text: A Specific Study with Persian Text Documents,
Pattern Analysis and Applications, 14(4), 381-394, 2011.
Jayadevan, R., Satish, R. Kolhe, Pradeep, M. Patil and Pal, Umapada: Offline Recognition of
Devanagari Script: A Survey, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (Part C):
Applications & Reviews, 41(6), 782-796, 2011.
Jayadevan, R., S., Kolhe, P., Patil and Pal, Umapada: Automatic Processing of Handwritten Bank
Cheque Images: A Survey, International Journal of Document Analysis and Recognition, Online
Version: DOI: 10.1007/s10032-011-0170-8.
Paik, Jiaul H., and Parui, S.K.: A fast corpus-based stemmer, ACM Transsactions on Asian Language
Information Processing, 10(2), Online Version: DOI: 10.1145/1967293.1967295, 2011.
Paik, Jiaul H., Mandar Mitra, Parui, S.K. and Jarvelin, K.: GRAS: an effective and efficient
stemming algorithm for information retrieval, ACM Transsactions on Information Systems, 29(4),
Online Version: DOI: 10.1145/2037661.2037664, 2011.
Pal, Srikanta, Blumenstein, Michael and Pal, Umapada: Automatic Off-line Signature
Verification Systems: A Review, International Journal on Computer Application, 14, 20-27, 2011.
Pal, Umapada, Jayadevan, R. and Sharma, Nabin: Handwriting Recognition in Indian Regional
Scripts: A Survey of Offline Techniques, ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information
Processing, 11(1), 1-35, 2012.
Roy, Partha Pratim, Pal, Umapada and Lladós, Josep: Document seal detection using GHT
and character proximity graphs, Pattern Recognition, 44(6), 1282-1295, 2011.
Roy, Partha Pratim, Pal, Umapada, Lladós, Josep and Delalandre, Mathieu: Multi-
Oriented Touching Text Character Segmentation in Graphical Documents using Dynamic
Programming, Pattern Recognition, 45(5), 1972-1983, 2012.
Roy, Partha Pratim, Pal, Umapada and Lladós, Josep: Text Line Extraction in Graphical
Documents using Background and Foreground Information, International Journal of Document
Analysis and Recognition, 15(3), 227-241, Online Version: DOI: 10.1007/s10032-011-0167-3, 2012.
Shivakumara, Palaiahnakote, Dutta, Anjan, Quy Phan, Trung, Lim Tan, Chew and
Pal, Umapada: A Novel Mutual Nearest Neighbor based Symmetry for Text Frame Classification in
Video, Pattern Recognition, 44(8), 1671-1683, 2011.
Krishnamurthy, M.: Philosophical and Theoretical Perspectives of Five Laws of Libraries and its
Influence in the Library Profession, Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science,
45(4), 271-286, 2011.
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Krishnamurthy, M., and Kemparaju, T.D.: Institutional Repositories in Indian Universities and
Research Institutes: A Study Program, Electronic Library & Information Systems, 45(2), 185-198,
2011.
Krishnamurthy, M and Rajashekara, H.M.: Current Trends in Wireless Technologies in Academic

Libraries, Defence Scientific Information & Documentation Centre (DESIDOC) Journal of Library &
Information Technology, 31(1), 41-48, 2011.
Kumar, Vinit, Madalli, Devika P. and Mithun Raj: Building a Personalized ToC service for the
Library of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, Electronic Library, ISSN: 0264-0473, 30(3), 2011.
Madalli, Devika P., Barve, Sunita and Amin, Saiful: Digital Preservation in Open-Source
Digital Library Software, The Journal of Academic Librarianship, Elsevier, Online Version:
DOI:10.1016/j.acalib.2012.02.004 Key: citeulike:10439038, 2012.
Raghavan, K.S.: Knowledge Representation in the Spiritual and Cultural Domains, The Open
Information Science Journal, 3, 5-11, 2011.
Biswas, S.K. and Mukherjee D.P.: Recognizing Architectural Distortion in Mammogram: A Multi-Scale
Texture Modeling Approach with GMM, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, 58(7), 2023-
2030, 2011.
Chen, Yi-Cheng, Pal, Nikhil R. and Chung, I-Fang: Integrated mechanism for feature selection
and fuzzy rule extraction for classification, IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, Online Version: DOI
10.1109/TFUZZ.2011.2181852, 2011.
Chen, Y-C, Aguan, K. Yang, C-W, Wang, Y-T, Pal, N.R.: Discovery of Protein
Phosphorylation Motifs through Exploratory Data Analysis, PLoS ONE, 6(5), e20025. Online Version:
DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0020025, 2011.
Dhara, B.C. and Chanda, B.: A Fast Progressive Image Transmission Scheme using Block
Truncation Coding by Pattern Fitting, Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation,
23(2), 313-322, 2012.
Muni, D.P. and Pal, Nikhil R.: Evolution of Fuzzy Classifiers Using Genetic Programming, Fuzzy
Information Engineering, 4(1), 29-50, Online Version: DOI: 10.1007/s12543-012-0099-8, 2012.
Das, S.K., Saha, S.K. and Mukherjee, D.P.: Segmentation of Multiple Objects Evolving
Conditional Random Field based Topology Adaptive Active Membrane, Signal Processing, 92, 2341-
2355, 2012.
Datta, B., Pal, S., Chowdhury, R.R., Sarkar, S., Datta, A.: Estimation of Solar Radiation
at a Particular Place: Comparative Study between Softcomputing and Statistical Approach,
International Journal on Computer Science and Engineering, 3(8), 3027-3036, 2011.
Das, S., Halder, U., and Maity, D.: Chaotic dynamic characteristics of social foraging swarms
– an analysis, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics (SMC) Part B, Online Version:
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCB.2012.2186799, 2012.
154
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De, I. and Chanda, B.: Multi-focus image fusion using a morphology based focus measure in a
quad-tree structure, Information Fusion Journal, 13, 2012.
Deb. N.C., Ray, K.S. and Dutta, H.N.: SODAR Pattern Classification by Graph Matching, IEEE
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, 8(3), 483-487, 2011.
Ghosh, Sayan, Das, Swagatam, V. Vasilakos, Athanasios and Kaushik, Suresh: On

convergence of differential evolution over a class of continuous functions with unique global optimum,
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics (SMC) Part – B, 42(1), 107-124, 2012.
Ghosh, S., Das, S., Kundu, D., Suresh K, and Abraham, A.: Inter-particle
communication and search-dynamics of lbest particle swarm optimizers: an analysis, Information
Sciences, 182(1), 156-168, 2012.
Ghosh. A., Das. S., Chowdhury, A., and Giri. R.: An ecologically inspired direct search
method for solving optimal control problems with Bézier parameterization, Engineering Applications of
Artificial Intelligence, Elsevier Science, 24(7), 1195–1203, 2011.
Ghosh, Sayan, Das, Swagatam, Kundu, Debarati, Kaushik, Suresh, Panigrahi,

Bijaya K. and Cui, Zhihua: An inertia-adaptive particle swarm system with particle mobility
factor for improved global optimization, Neural Computing and Applications, Springer, 21(2), 237-250,
2012.
Ghosh, Saurav, Das, Swagatam, Roy, Subhrajit, Minhazul Islam, S.K. and
Suganthan, P.N.: A differential covariance matrix adaptation evolutionary algorithm for real
parameter optimization, Information Sciences, 182(1), 199-219, 2012.
Kundu, Debarati, Kaushik, Suresh, Ghosh, Sayan, Das, Swagatam, Panigrahi, B.K.
and Das, Sanjoy: Multi-objective optimization with artificial weed colonies, Information Sciences,
Elsevier Science, 181(12), 2441-2454, 2011.
Kumar, R., Pal, N.R. and Chanda, B.: Forensic Detection of Fraudulent Alteration in Ball-Point Pen
Strokes, IEEE Transaction on Information Forensics & Security, 7(2), 809-820, 2012.
Kumar, R., Sharma, J.D. and Chanda, B.: Writer-Independent Off-line Signature Verification
using Surroundedness Feature, Pattern Recognition Letters, 33(3), 301-308, 2012.
Maity, D., Halder. U., Das. S. and Vasilakos A.V.: An informative differential evolution
algorithm with self adaptive re-clustering technique for the optimization of phased antenna array,
Progress in Electromagnetics Research - B, 40, 361-380, 2012.
Mandal, A., Zafar. H., Das. S. and Vasilakos, A.V.: A modified differential evolution
algorithm for shaped beam linear array antenna design, Progress in Electromagnetics Research
(PIER), 125, 439-457, 2012.
Mandal, S., Das, A.K., Bhowmick, P. and Chanda, B.: A Unified Algorithm for Identification
of Various Tabular Structures from Document Images, International Journal of Digital Library Systems,
2(2), 27-54, 2011.
Minhazul Islam, S.K., Das, S., Ghosh, S., Roy, Subhrajit, and Suganthan, P.N.:
An adaptive differential evolution algorithm with novel mutation and crossover strategies for global
numerical optimization, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics (SMC) Part – B, 42(2),
482-500, 2012.
155
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Mohanta, P.P., Saha, S.K. and Chanda, B.: A Model based Shot Boundary Detection Technique
using Frame Transition Parameters, IEEE Transsactions on Multimedia, 14(1), 223-233, 2012.
Mukherjee, D.P. and Ray, N.: Contour Interpolation using Level Set Analysis, International Journal of
Image and Graphics, World Scientific, 12(1), 2012.
Mukherjee, S., Biswas, S.K. and Mukherjee, D.P.: Recognizing Human Action at a Distance in Video
by Key Poses, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, 21(9), 1228-1241,
2011.
Mukherjee, Snehasis, and Mukherjee, Dipti Prasad: A Design-of-experiment based Statistical

Technique for Detection of Key-Frames, Multimedia Tools and Applications, Springer, Online Version:
DOI: 10.1007/s11042-011-0882-2, 2011.
Nasir, Md., Maity, D., Das, S., Sengupta, S., Halder, Udit, Suganthan, P.N.: A
Dynamic Neighborhood Learning based Particle Swarm Optimizer for Global Numerical Optimization,
Information Sciences, Elsevier, Online Version: DOI: 10.1016/j.ins.2012.04.028, 2012.
Pandi, V.R., Panigrahi, B.K., Bansal, Ramesh C., Das, Swagatam and Mohapatra,
Ankita: Economic load dispatch using hybrid swarm intelligence based harmony search algorithm,
Electric Power Components & Systems, Taylor & Francis, 39(8), 751-767, 2011.
Purkait, P. and Chanda, B.: Morphologic Gain Controlled Regularization for Edge-Preserving Super
Resolution Image Reconstruction, Signal Image and Video Processing, 1-14, Online Version:
rd.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11760-011-0281-1, 2011.
Ray, K.S. and Mondal, M.: Similarity-based Fuzzy Reasoning by DNA Computing, International
Journal of Bio-inspired Computation, 3(2), 112-122, 2011.
Ray, K.S. and Mondal, M.: Classification of SODAR data Using DNA Computing, New Mathematics
and Natural Computation, 7(3), 413-432, 2011.
Ray, K.S. and Mondal, M.: Fuzzy Molecular Automaton Using Splicing Theory, International Journal of
Bio-inspired Computation, 3(5), 320-330, 2011.
Ray, K.S. and Chakraborty.A (2011), "A Fuzzy Version of Default Logic", International Journal
Intelligent Computing and Cybernetics, 4(1), 5-24.
Ray, K.S. and Ray, B.K.: An Algorithm for Line Drawing Using Parametric Equation, International
Journal of Computer Graphics, 2(1), 9-15, 2011.
Roy, S., Islam, Sk. M., Das, S, Ghosh, S. and Vasilakos, A.V.: A simulated weed
colony system with sub-regional differential evolution for multimodal optimization, Engineering
Optimization, Taylor and Francis, Online Version: DOI: 10.1080/0305215X.2012.678494, 2012.
Sengupta, A., Mazumdar, C., Bagchi, A.: A Formal Methodology for Detecting Managerial
Vulnerabilities and Threats in an Enterprise Information System, The Journal of Network and Systems
Management, 19(3), 319-342, 2011.
Su, Chun-Hung, Pal, Nikhil R., Lin, Ken-Li, Chung, I-Fang: Identification of Amino Acid
Propensities That Are Strong Determinants of Linear B-cell Epitope Using Neural Networks, PLoS
ONE, 7(2), e30617, Online Version: DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0030617.
156
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Tsai, Y-S, Aguan, K., Pal, N.R., Chung, I-F: Identification of Single- and Multiple-Class
Specific Signature Genes from Gene Expression Profiles by Group Marker Index, PLoS ONE, 6(9),
e24259, Online Version: DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0024259, 2011.
Bhattacharya, A. and De, R.K.: A novel noise handling method to improve clustering of gene
expression patterns, BMC Bioinformatics, 12 (Suppl 7):A3, Online Version: DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-
12-S7-A3, 2012.
Bhattacharya, A., Chowdhury, N., and De, R.K.: Comparative analysis of clustering and
biclustering algorithms for grouping of genes: co-function and co-regulation, Current Bioinformatics, 7,
63-76, 2012.
Chakraborty, H. and Murthy, C.A.: Inversion in the number of high wind thunderstorms between
Kolkata of North-East India and Florida of South-East USA, The International Journal of Climate
Change: Impacts and Responses, 2, 21-32, 2011.
Das, S., Chaudhury, M. and Kundu, M.K.: Medical image fusion based on ripplet transform type-I,
Progress in Electromagnetics Research B (PIER B), 30, 355-370, 2011.
Ghosh, Kuntal: A possible role and basis of visual pathway selection in brightness induction, Seeing
and Perceiving, 25, 179-212, 2012.
Maity, S.P. and Kundu, M.K.: Perceptually adaptive spread transfom image watermarking scheme
using Hadamard transform, Information Sciences, 181, 450-465, 2011.
Maji, P.: Mutual information based supervised attribute clustering for microarray sample classification,
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 24, 127-140, 2012.
Maulik, U., Bhattacharyya, M., Mukhopadhyay, A. and Bandyopadhyay, S.: Identifying the
immunodeficiency gateway proteins in human and their involvement in microRNA regulation,
Molecular BioSystems, 7, 1842-1851, 2011.
Mitra, S., Kundu, P.P. and Pedrycz, W.: Feature selection using structural similarity, Information
Sciences, 198, 48–61, 2012.
Mitra, S. and Kundu, P.P.: Satellite image segmentation with Shadowed C-Means, Information
Sciences, 181, 3601-3613, 2011.
Ray, S.S., Bandyopadhyay, S. and Pal, S.K.: A weighted power framework for integrating multi-source
information: gene function prediction in yeast, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, 59,
1162-1168, 2012.
Ray, S.S., Halder, S., Kaypee, S. and Bhattacharyya, D.: HD-RNAS: A hierarchical
database of RNA structures, Frontiers in Genetics, 3, 01-10, 2012.
Subudhi, B.N., Nanda, P.K., and Ghosh, A.: Entropy based region selection for local thresholding
to detect moving objects, Pattern Recognition Letters, 32, 2097-2108, 2011.
Subudhi, B. N., Nanda, P.K., and Ghosh, A.: A change information based fast algorithm for video
object detection and tracking, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, 21,
993-1004, 2011.
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Tagore, S. and De, R.K.: Detecting breakdown points in metabolic networks, Computational
Biology and Chemistry, 35, 371-380, 2011.
Lim, S.., Sagar, B.S.D, Koo, V. C. and Tay, L.T.: Morphological convexity measures for
terrestrial basins derived from Digital Elevation Models, Computers & Geosciences, 37(9), 1285-1294,
2011.
Majumdar, K., and Vardhan, Pratap: Efficacy of differential operators in brain electrophysiological
signal processing: A case study in epilepsy, IEEE Trans. Neural Systems and Rehabilitation
Engineering, 19(4), 356–365, 2011.
Majumdar, K.: Human scalp EEG processing: various soft computing approaches, Applied Soft
Computing, 11(8), 4433–4447, 2011.
Majumdar, K.: Differential operator in seizure detection, Computers in Biology and Medicine, 42(1), 70-
74, 2012.
Meher, S.K., and Pal, S.K.: Rough-Wavelet Granular Space and Classification of Multispectral Remote
Sensing Image, Applied Soft Computing, 11(8), 5662-5673, 2011.
Pal, S.K., Meher, S. K., and Dutta, S.: Class-Dependent Rough-Fuzzy Granular Space, Dispersion
Index and Classification, Pattern Recognition, 45, 2690-2707, 2012.
Rajashekara, H.M., Vardhan, Pratap and Sagar, B.S.D.: Generation of zonal map from point data
via weighted skeletonization by influence zone, IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, 9(3),
403-407, 2012.
Shankar, U.B., Meher, S.K., and Ghosh, A.: Wavelet-Fuzzy-Hybridization: Feature-extraction and
Land-cover Classification of Remote Sensing Images, Applied Soft Computing, 11(3), 2999-3011,
2011.
Tewari, S. and Majumdar, K.: A mathematical model of tripartite synapse: Astrocyte induced synaptic
plasticity, to appear in Journal of Biological Physics, Online Version: DOI: 10.1007/s10867-012-9267-
7, 2012.
Tewari, S. and Majumdar, K.: A mathematical model of astrocyte mediated LTP at a single
hippocampal synapse, Journal of Computational Neuroscience, Online Version: DOI: 10.1007/s10827-
012-0389-5, 2012.
Bardhan, S., Chattopadhyay, D., Mondal, S., Das, S.S., Mallick, S., Roy, A., and
Chanda. P.: Record of intense predatory drilling from Upper Jurassic bivalves of Kutch, India:
Implications for the history of biotic interaction, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology,
317 & 318, 153–161, 2012.
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Bickford, M.E., Basu A., Patranabis-Deb, S., Dhang, P.C. and Schieber, J.: Depositional
History of the Chhattisgarh Basin, Central India: Constraints from New SHRIMP Zircon Ages, Journal
of Geology, 119, 33–50, 2011.
Chirouze, F., Dupont-Nivet, G., Huyghe, P., Van der Beek, P., Chakraborty, T.,
Bernet, M. and Erens V. : Magnetostratigraphy of the Neogene Siwalik Goup in the far Eastern
Himalaya; Kameng Section, Arunachal Pradesh, India, Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 44, 117-135,
2012.
Conrad, J.E., Hein, J.R., Chaudhuri, Asru K., Patranabis-Deb, S., Mukhopadhyay,
Joydip, Deb, G.K., Beukes, N.J.: Constraints on the development of central India Proterozoic
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basins from Ar/ Ar analysis of authigenic glauconitic minerals and geological implications,
Geological Society of America Bulletin, 123, 158–167, 2011.
Da-Silva1 S.D., Sengupta D.P., Cabreira S.F. and Da Silva L.R.: The Presence of
Compsocerops (Brachyopoidea: Chigutisauridae) (Late Triassic) In The Upper Triassic Of Southern
Brazil With Comments On Chigutisaurid Palaeobiogeography, Palaeontology, 55, 163-172, 2012.
Eriksson, P.G., Lenhardt, N., Wright, D.T., Mazumder, R. and Bumby, A.J.: Late
Neoarchaean-Palaeoproterozoic supracrustal basin-fills of the Kaapvaal craton: Relevance of the
supercontinent cycle, the "Great Oxidation Event" and "Snowball Earth"?, Marine and Petroleum
Geology, 28, 1385-1401, 2012.
Ghosh, S., Sarkar, S.and Ghosh P.: Petrography and major element geochemistry of the Permo-
Triassic sandstones, central India: Implications for provenance in an intracratonic pull-apart basin,
Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 43, 207-240, 2012.
Mallik, L., Mazumder, R., Mazumder, B.S., Arima, M. and Chatterjee, P.: Tidal
rhythmites in offshore shale: A case study from the Palaeoproterozoic Chaibasa shale, eastern India
and implications, Marine and Petroleum Geology, 30, 43-49, 2012.
Mazumder, R. and van Loon, A.J.: Depositional history of diamictites from the Late
Paleoproterozoic Dalma Formation (E India), Sedimentary Geology, 251–252, 49-57, 2012.
Patranabis-Deb, S., Saha D. and Tripathy V.: Basin stratigraphy, sea-level fluctuations and their global
tectonic connections—evidence from the Proterozoic Cuddapah Basin, Geological Journal Wiley,
Online Version: Library (wileyonlinelibrary.com). DOI: 10.1002/gj.1347, 2012.
Saha, D.: Dismembered ophiolites in Paleoproterozoic nappe complexes of Kandra and Gurramkonda,
South India, Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 42, 158-175, 2011.
Saha, D.: Tuff beds in Kurnool subbasin, southern India and implications for felsic volcanism in
Proterozoic intracratonic basins, Geoscience Frontiers, Online Version: DOI:
10.1016/j.gsf.2012.01.002, 2012.
Van Loon, A.J. and Mazumder, R.: Can once lithified rocks later undergo soft-sediment
deformation?, Sedimentary Geology, Online Version: DOI:10.1016/j.sedgeo.2011.04.005, 238, 101-
105, 2011.
Van Loon, A.J. and Maulik, P.K. : Abraded sand volcanoes as tool for recornizing paleo-
earthquakes, with examples from the Cisuralian Talchir Formation near Angul (Orissa, eastern India),
Sedimentary Geology, 238, 145-155, 2011.
159
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Biswas, Sunil Kumar, Sau, Goutam Ghosh Das, Amar Chandra and Bhattacharyya, S. :
Characteristics of strange hopruadron production in some high energy collisions and the role of power
laws, Open Journal of Microphysics, 2(1), 1-11, 2012.
Bandyopadhyay, S., Ghosh, S. and Kar, G.: LOCC distinguishability of unilaterally

transformable quantum states, New Journal of Physics, 13, 123013-123029, 2011.
Berard, A., Ghosh, Subir, Grandati, Y., Mohrbach, H. and Pal, Probir: Constrained
2
dynamics of an anomalous (g/neq ) relativistic spinning particle in electromagnetic background,
European Journal of Physics, C71, 1770, 2011.
Bhattacharya, S. and Roy, S.: Schroedinger-Langevin equation and ion transport at nano-scale,
Journal of Modern Physics, 2, 231-235, 2011.
Bhattacharya, S. and Roy, S.: Dissipative effect and tunneling time, Advances in Mathematical
Physics, Article ID 138358, 1-14, 2011.
Choudhury, S. and Pal, S.: Brane inflation in background supergravity, Physical Review D, 85,
043529(1)-043529(12), 2012.
Choudhury, S. and Pal, S.: Reheating and leptogenesis in a SUGRA inspired brane inflation, Nuclear
Physics B, 857, 85-100, 2012.
Choudhury, S. and Pal, S.: Fourth level MSSM inflation from new flat directions, Journal of Cosmology
and Astroparticle Physics, 04, 018(1)-018(17), 2012.
Dutta, D. and Roy, P.: Darboux transformation, exceptional orthogonal polynomials and
supersymmetry, Contemporary Mathematics, 563, 33-49, 2012.
Debnath, K., Manik, M.K. and Mazumder, B.S.: Turbulence statistics of flow over scoured
cohesive sediment bed around circular cylinder, Advances in Water Resources, 41, 18-28, 2012.
Dutta, D. and Roy, P.: Generalized factorization and isospectral potentials, Physical Review A, 83,
054102(1)-054102(4), 2011.
Das, P.K. and Haldar, P.: Berry phase of atom-field system in interacting Fock Space, Modern
Physics Letters B, 25, 1769-1778, 2011.
Das, P.K. and Nath, D.: Wehrl entropy of the state in a two-atom tavis-cummings model, Banach
Center Publications, Institute of Mathematics, Polish Academy of Science, Warsawa, 96, 81-90, 2011.
Das, S., Ghosh, S, van Holten, J.W. and Pal, S.: Generalized particle dynamics in anti de sitter
spaces: A source for dark energy, International Journal of Modern Physics D, 20, 1235-1249, 2011.
Das, Sudipta and Ghosh, Subir, Mignemi, Salvatore: Noncommutative spacetime in very special
relativity, Physics Letter A, 375, 3237-3242, 2011.
Das, Sudipta, Ghosh and Subir: Gauge invariant extension of linearized horava gravity, Modern
Physics Letter A, 26, 2793, 2011.
Dutta, M., Chakraborty, N. and Roychoudhury, R.: Nonlinear behaviour of electron acoustic
waves in an unmagnetized plasma, Physics of Plasma, 18, 102301(1 – 5), 2011.
160
Publications
Ghosh, S. and Roy, P. : Stringy coherent states inspired by generalized uncertainty principle, Physics
Letters B, 711, 423-427, 2012.
Guptaroy, P., Sau, Goutam and Bhattacharyya, S.: Ansatzs, assumptions and production of
J/Ψ-particles: A non-charmed approach us, the charmed ones, Chinese Physics Letter, 29(2), 022501,
2012.
Guptaroy, P., Sau, Goutam and Bhattacharyya, S.: On production of hadrons in proton-proton
collisions of RHIC and LHC energies and an approach, Journal of Modern Physics, 03(01), 116-123,
2012.
Gogoi, R., Roychoudhury, R. and Khan, M.: Arbitrary amplitude dust ion acoustic solitary waves
and double layers in a plasma with non thermal electrons, Indian Journal of Pure & Applied Physics,
50, 110-116, 2012.
Ghosh, Subir: Black hole entropy: from Shannon to Bekenstein, International Journal of Theoretical
Physics, 50, 3515-3520, 2011.
Ghosh, Subir and Megnemi, Salvatore: Quantum mechanics in de Sitter space, International
Journal of Theoretical Physics, 50, 1803-1808, 2011.
Ghoshal, K., Purkait, B. and Mazumder, B.S.: Size distributions in suspension over sand-
pebble mixture: An experimental approach, Sedimentary Geology, 241, 3-12, 2011.
Jana, T.K. and Roy, P.: Pseudo hermitian formulation of the quantum Black- Scholes hamiltonian,
Physica A, 391, 2636-2640, 2012.
Kar, G. and Rahaman, R.: Local cloning of multiparticle entangled states, Quantum Information
Processing, 11, 711-727, 2012.
Midya, Bikashkali, Roy, Barnana and Tanaka, Toshiaki: Effect of position dependent mass on
dynamical breaking of type B and type X2 N-fold supersymmetry, Journal of Physics A, 45, 205303,
2012.
Mazumder, B.S. and Paul, S.: Dispersion of settling particles in oscillatory turbulent flow subject to
depositon and re-entrainment, European Journal of Mechanics-B/Fluids, 31, 80-90, 2012.
Mallik, L., Mazumder, R., Mazumder, B.S., Arima, M. and Chatterjee, P. : Tidal
rhythmites in offshore shale : A case study from the palaeoproterozoic chaibasa shale, eastern India
and implications, Marine and Petroleum Geology, 30, 43-49, 2012.
Mazumder, B.S. and Paul, S.: Dispersion of reactive species with reversible and irreversible wall
reactions, Heat and Mass Transfer, Springer-Verlag, Online Version: DOI: 10.1007/s00231-011-0920-
7, 2011.
Pal, B. K., Pal, S. and Basu, B.: A semi-analytical approach to perturbations in mutated hilltop inflation,
International Journal of Modern Physics D, 21, 1250017(1)-1250017(10) 2012.
Pal, B.K., Pal, S. and Basu, B.: Confronting quasi-exponential inflation with WMAP seven, Journal of
Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 04, 009(1)-009(13), 2012.
Panja, M.M. and Mandal, B.N.: Evaluation of singular integrals using Daubechies scale function,
Advances in Computer Mathematics and its Application, 1, 64-75, 2012.
161
Publications
Panja, M.M. and Mandal, B.N.: A note on one-point quadrature formula for Daubechies scale
function with partial support, Applied Mathematics Computation, 218, 4147-4151, 2011.
Roy, A.K., Sharma, S.K., Gupta, R. and Ranadive, P.: Analytic formulas for frequency and
size dependence of absorption and scattering efficiencies of astronomical polycyclic aromatic
hydrocarbons, Journal of Quantum Spectroscopy & Radiation Transfer, 113, 624-631, 2012.
Rana, Swapan and Parashar, Preeti: Tight lower bound on geometric discord of bipartite states.
Physical Review A, 85, 024102, 2012.
Rana, Swapan and Parashar, Preeti: Optimal reducibility of all W states equivalent under stochastic
local operations and classical communication, Physical Review A, 84, 052331, 2011.
Sau, Goutam, Bhattacharya, A. and Bhattacharyya, S.: Rapidity and pseudorapidity

distributions of the various hadron-species produced in high energy nuclear collisions: A systematic
approach, Journal of Modern Physics, 02(11), 1354-1365, 2011.
Bag, A., Bhattacharyya, S.K., Pal, N.K. and Chattopadhyay, R.R.: Synergistic effect of Terminalia
chebula and antibiotics against multidrug-resistant uropathogenic Escherichia coli, Medicinal and
Aromatic Plant Science and Biotechnology, 5, 70-73, 2011.
Bag, A., Bhattacharyya, S.K., Pal, N.K. and Chattopadhyay, R.R.: Combination effects of phenolics
of Terminalia chebula fruits and antibiotics against clinical isolates of methicillin-resistant
Staphylococcus aureus, Recent Progress in Medicinal Plants, 31, 171-178, 2011.
Bezbaruha, R., Sharma, R.C. and Banik, P.: Effect of nutrient management and planting geometry
of hybrid rice (Oryza sativa L.) cultivars, American Journal of Plant Sciences, 3, 297-302, 2011.
Chandra, S., Mitra, S., Laha, D., Bag, S., Das, P., Goswami, A. and Pramanik, P.:
Fabrication of multi-structure nanocarbons from carbon xerogel: a unique scaffold towards bio-
imaging, Chemical Communications, 47, 8587-8589, Online Version: DOI: 10.1039/C1CC11848J,
2011.
Chaudhuri, S., Chattopadhyay, J. and Venturino, E.: Toxic phytoplankton induced

spatiotemporal pattern, Journal of Biological Physics, 38, 331-348, 2012.
Das, D., Bhattacharyya, P., Ghosh, B.C. and Banik, P.: Effect of vermicomposting on
calcium, sulphur and some heavy metal content of different biodegradable organic wastes under liming
and microbial inoculation, Journal of Environmental Science and Health, Part B: Pesticides, Food
Contaminants, and Agricultural Wastes, 47, 205-211, 2012.
Das, K.P. and Chattopadhyay, J.: Role of environmental disturbances in an eco-epidemiological

model with disease from external source, Mathematical Methods in Applied Science, 35, 659-675,
2012.
162
Publications
Das, K.P., Ghosh, K. and Chattopadhyay, J.: Alternative Food Induced Predator-Prey
Oscillations in an Eco-epidemiological Model, International Journal of Evolution Equations, 6(2), 39-61,
2012.
Das, S., Debnath, N., Patra, P., Datta, A. and Goswami, A.: Nanoparticles influence on expression
of cell cycle related genes in Drosophila: a microarray-based toxico-genomics study, Toxicological and
Environmental Chemistry, Online Version: DOI: 10.1080/02772248, 2012.
Dasgupta, N., Nandy, P., Sengupta, C. and Das, S.: Protein and enzyme regulations towards
salt tolerance of some Indian mangroves in relation to adaptation, Trees: Structure and Function,
26,377-391, 2012.
Dasgupta, N., Nandy, P., Sengupta, C. and Das, S.: Salinity impact on precarious mangroves: a
biochemical studies in some taxa from Indian Sundarbans, American Journal of Plant Physiology, 7,
53-69, 2012.
Debnath, N., Das, S., Seth, D., Chandra, R., Bhattacharya, S. and Goswami, A.: Entomotoxic effect of
silica nanoparticles against Sitophilus oryzae (L.), Journal of Pest Science, 84, 99-105, 2011.
Debnath, N., Das, S., Patra, P., Mitra, S. and Goswami, A.: Toxicological evaluation of entomotoxic
silica nanoparticles, Toxicological and Environmental Chemistry, Online Version:
DOI:10.1080/02772248.2012.682462, 2012.
Debnath, N., Mitra, S., Das, S. and Goswami, A.: Synthesis of surface functionalized silica
nanoparticles and their use as entomotoxic nanocides, Powder Technology, 221, 252-256, Online
Version: DOI: 10.1016/j.powtec.2012.01.009, 2012.
Ghosal, P., Chakraborty, T. and Banik, P.: Phosphorus fixing capacity of Oxic Rhodustalf- alfisol
soil in the chotanagpur plateau region of eastern India, Agricultural Sciences, 2, 487-490, 2011.
Gupta, A., Bhattacharya, S. and Chattopadhyay, A.: Exploring new models for Population
prediction in Detecting Demographic phase change for sparse census data, Communications in
Statistics -Theory and Methods, 41, 1171-1193, 2012.
Jana, A. and Mandal, Biswas S.: Lactam nonanic acid, a new substance from Cleome viscosa with
allelopathic and antimicrobial properties, Journal of Biosciences, 36, 27-35, 2011.
Mandal Biswas, S., Mitra, S., Brahmachary R.L. and Ray, S.: Methyl 4,4-dimethyl-tetra-decanoate,
a bioactive compound isolated from leaves of Tamarindus indica L. Biopesticides International, 72, 82-
92, 2011.
Mitra, S., Chandra, S., Patra, P., Pramanik, P. and Goswami, A.: Novel fluorescent matrix
embedded carbon quantum dots for the production of stable gold and silver hydrosols, Journal of
Materials Chemistry, 21,17638-17641, Online Version: DOI:10.1039/c1jm13858h, 2011.
Mitra, S., Patra, P., Chandra, S., Pramanik, P. and Goswami, A.: Efficacy of highly water-
dispersed fabricated nano ZnO against clinically isolated bacterial strains, Applied Nanoscience,
Online Version: DOI: 10.1007/s13204-012-0095-7, 2012.
Mitra, S., Chandra, S., Laha, D. Patra, P., Debnath, N., Pramanik, A., Pramanik, P. and
Goswami, A.: Unique chemical grafting of carbon nanoparticle on fabricated ZnO nanorod:
Antibacterial and bioimaging property, Materials Research Bulletin, 47, 586-594, 2011.
163
Publications
Mukhopadhyay, G., Santra, S.C. and Dewanji, A.: Influence of limnology on temporal
changes in species diversity of aquatic vegetation in two tropical ponds (Kolkata, India), Acta Botanica
Hungarica, 53, 347-369, 2011.
Roy, P.K., Sil, N. and Bhattacharya, S.: On the estimation of expected time to extinction in a
dynamical model of HIV, International Journal of Mathematical Sciences and Applications, 2, 213-221,
2012.
Roy Choudhury, S., Dey, K. K., Bera, S. and Goswami, A.: Colloidal stability and coagulation kinetics
study of different sized sulphur nanoparticles, Journal of Experimental Nanoscience, 10, 1–6, 2012.
Roy Choudhury, S., Pradhan, S. and Goswami, A.: Preparation and characterisation of acephate
nano-encapsulated complex, Nanoscience Methods, 1, 9-15, 2012.
Roy Choudhury, S., Roy, S., Goswami, A. and Basu, S.: Polyethylene glycol-stabilized sulphur
nanoparticles: an effective antimicrobial agent against multidrug-resistant bacteria, Journal of
Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, Online Version: DOI: 10.1093/jac/dkr591, 2012.
Samanta, S., Chakraborty, S., Bhattacharya, S. and Chattopadhyay, J.: Fish kairomones, its benefits
and detriments: A model based study both from releaser and acceptor perspective, Ecological
Complexity, 8, 258-264, Online Version: DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecocom.2011.05.001, 2011.
Sarkar, A., Ghosal, P.K., Mahato, B. and Banik, P.: Natural reseource inventory of Manbazar block
(Purulia district) in the eastern plateau of India: Technology intervention for the sustainable agricultural
development, International Journal of Scientific and Engineering Research, 2, 1-6, 2011.
Sharma, R.C. and Banik, P.: Effect of integrated nutrient management on baby corn-rice cropping
system: economic yield, system productivity, nutrient use efficiency and soil nutrient balance, Indian
Journal of Agricultural Science, 82, 220-224, 2012.
Tsai, C-C., Li, S-J., Su, Y-Y., Yong, JWH, Saenger, P., Chesson, P., Das, S.,
Wightman, G., Yang, Y-P., Liu, H-Y. and Sheue, C-R.: Molecular phylogeny and
evidence for natural hybridization and historical introgression between Ceriops species
(Rhizophoraceae), Biochemical Systematics and Ecology, 43, 178-191, 2012.
Adak, D.K. and Bharati, P.: Position of women in the Ladiya society: Demographic perspectives.
Collegium Antropologicum, 35, 319-324, 2011.
Bhakta, A., Bandyopadhyay, M., Tarnekar, A.M., Ghosh, S.K., Adak, D.K. and
Bharati P.: Digito-Palmar Dermatoglyphics in Vitiligo: A case-control Study, International Journal of
Anthropology, 26, 49-58, 2011.
Bharati, P., Pal, M. (Economic Research Unit) and Bharati, S. (Sociology Research Unit): Can
mother’s education and family welfare reduce under-nutrition of pre-school children in India?, Human
Biology Review, 1, 207-221, 2012.
Bharati, S. (Sociology Research Unit), Pal M. (Economic Research Unit), Bandyopadhyay, M.,
Bhakta, A. and Chakraborty, S., Bharati, P.: Prevalence and Causes of Low Birth Weight in
India, Malaysian Journal of Nutrition, 17, 301-313, 2011.
164
Publications
Bharati, S. (Sociology Research Unit), Shome, S. (Sociology Research Unit), Pal, M. (Economic
Research Unit), Chaudhury, P. and Bharati, P.: Is son preference pervasive in India?, Journal of
Gender Studies, 20, 291-298, 2011.
Bharati,S.( Sociology Research Unit), Pal, M.(Economic Research Unit), Chakrabarty,S. and
Bharati, P.: Trends in socioeconomic and nutritional status of children younger than 6 years in India,
Asia-Pacific Journal of Public Health, 23, 324-340, 2011.
Chakrabarty,S. and Bharati, P.: Household economy and nutritional status among the Shabar tribe
living in a protected forest area of Orissa, India, Human Biology Review, 1, 22-37, 2012.
Dasgupta, S., Sirisha, P.V.S., Neelaveni, K., Anuradha, K. and Reddy, B.M.:
Luteinizing hormone β-subunit gene mutations among South Indian women with Polycystic Ovary
Syndrome, Gene, 494, 51–56, 2012.
Dasgupta, S., Sirisha, P.V.S., Neelaveni, K., Anuradha, K. and Reddy, B.M.:
Association of CAPN10 SNPs and haplotypes with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome among South Indian
women, PLoS ONE, 7, e32192, Online Version: DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0032192, 2012.
Mandal, C.R., Adak, D.K., Biswas, S. and Bharati P.: A study on BMI among the Bhotia of
Uttaranchal, India, Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Disease, 1, 55-58, 2011.
Mandal, C.R., Adak, D.K., Biswas, S. and Bharati, P.: Isolated systolic hypertension
among the Bhotia of Uttanchal, Human Biology Review, 1, 51-56, 2012.
Mishra, S.K. and Mukhopadhyay, S.: Socioeconomic correlates of reproductive morbidity among
adolescent girls in Sikkim, India, Asia Pacific Journal of Public Health, 24, 136-150, 2012.
Nanda, J., Adak, D. and Bharati, P.: Contraceptive practices among adolescent married women
in Tamil Nadu, India, Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Disease, 1,137-141, 2011.
Pal M. (Economic Research Unit), Pal, J.K. (Legal Cell), Tiwari, H.R. and Bharati P.: What makes
child workers go to school? A case study from West Bengal, International Labour Review, 150, 375-
386, 2011.
Pal, J.K. (Legal Cell), Pal, M. (Economic Research Unit), Tewari, H.R. and Bharati, P.: Risk
Factors Associated with Morbidity Pattern of Working Children, Journal of Life Science, 3, 147-156,
2011.
Sen, P., Bharati S. (Sociology Research Unit), Som, S. (Sociology Research Unit), Pal, M.(Economic
Research Unit) and Bharati, P.: Growth and nutritional status of preschool children in India: A study of
two recent time periods, Food and Nutrition Bulletin, 32(2), 84-93, 2011.
Human Genetics Unit
Bodhini, D., Radha, V., Ghosh, S., Majumder, P.P. and Mohan, V.: Lack of association of
PTPN1 gene polymorphisms with type 2 diabetes in south Indians, Journal of Genetics, 90(2), 323-
326, 2011.
Chauhan, G., Kaur, I., Tabassum, R., Dwivedi, O.P., Ghosh, S., Tandon, N. and
Bharadwaj, D.: Common variants of homocysteine metabolism pathway genes and risk of type 2
diabetes and related traits in Indians, Experimental Diabetes Research, Online Version: DOI:
10.1155/2012/960318, 2011.
165
Publications
Chauhan, G., Tabassum, R., Mahajan, A., Dwivedi, O.P., Mahendran, Y., Kaur,
I., Nigam, S., Dubey H, Varma, B., Madhu, S.V., Mathur, S.K., Ghosh, S. and
Tandon, N., Bharadwaj, D.: Common variants of FTO and the risk of obesity and type 2
diabetes in Indians, Journal of Human Genetics; 56(10), 720-726, Online Version: DOI:
10.1038/jhg.2011.87, 2011.
Chavali, S., Mahajan, A., Ghosh, S., Mondal, B. and Bharadwaj, D.: Protein molecular
function influences mutation rates in human genetic diseases with allelic heterogeneity,
Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, 412(4), 716-722, 2011.
Chavali, S., Mahajan, A., Tabassum, R., Dwivedi, O.P., Chauhan, G., Ghosh,
S., Tandon, N. and Bharadwaj, D.: Association of variants in genes involved in pancreatic β-cell
development and function with type 2 diabetes in North Indians, Journal of Human Genetics, 56(10),
695-700, Online Version: DOI:10.1038/jhg.2011.83, 2011.
Ghosh, S., Bickeböller, H., Bailey, J., Bailey-Wilson, J.E., Cantor,

R., Culverhouse, R., Daw, W., Destefano, A.L., Engelman, C.D., Hinrichs,
A.,Houwing-Duistermaat, J., König, I.R., Kent, J. Jr., Laird, N., Pankratz,
N., Paterson, A., Pugh, E., Suarez, B., Sun, Y., Thomas, A., Tintle,
N., Zhu, X., Ziegler, A., Maccluer, J.W. and Almasy, L.: Identifying rare variants
from exome scans: the GAW17 experience, BMC Proceedings, 5 (Suppl. 9), S1, 2011.
Golka, K., Roy, B. and Hengstler, J.G.: Bladder cancer documentation of causes: multilingual
questionnaire, bladder cancer Doc., Frontiers in Bioscience, E4, 2809-2822, 2012.
Haldar, T. and Ghosh, S.: Effect of population stratification on false positive rates of population-
based association analyses of quantitative traits, The Annals of Human Genetics, 76(3), 237-245,
2012.
Mahajan, A., Jaiswal, A., Tabassum, R., Podder, A., Ghosh, S., Madhu, S.V.,
Mathur, S.K., Tandon, N. and Bharadwaj, D.: Elevated levels of C-reactive protein as a
risk factor for metabolic syndrome in Indians, Atherosclerosis, 220(1), 275-281, 2012.
Mahajan, A., Tabassum, R., Chavali, S., Dwivedi, O.P., Chauhan, G., Ghosh, S.,
Tandon, N. and Bharadwaj, D.: Common variants in CRP and LEPR influence high sensitivity
C-reactive protein levels in North Indians., PLoS One, 6(9), e24645, 2011.
Mukhopadhyay I., Bandyopadhyay, S.K. and Chatterjee, A.: Prioritisation of the determinants
of customer satisfaction: A simultaneous equation approach in ordinal endogenous set-up, Total Quality
Management & Business Excellence, 22(1), 117-130, 2011.
Mukhopadhyay, I., Saha, S. and Ghosh, S.: Integrating binary traits with quantitative phenotypes for
association mapping, BMC Proceedings, 5(Suppl. 9), S73, 2011.
Tabassum, R., Mahajan, A., Chauhan, G., Dwivedi, O.P., Dubey, H., Sharma,
V., Kundu, B., Ghosh, S., Tandon, N. and Bharadwaj, D.: No association of TNFRSF1B
variants with type 2 diabetes in Indians of Indo European origin, BMC Medical Genetics, 17, 110,
2011.
Tabassum, R., Jaiswal, A., Chauhan, G., Dwivedi, O.P., Ghosh, S., Marwaha, R.K.,
Tandon, N. and Bharadwaj, D.: Genetic Variant of AMD1 Is Associated with Obesity in Urban
Indian Children, PLoS One, 7(3), e33162, 2012.
166
Publications
Tabassum, R., Mahajan, A., Dwivedi, O.P., Chauhan, G., Spurgeon, C.J., Kumar,
M.V., Ghosh, S., Madhu, S.V., Mathur, S.K., Chandak, G.R., Tandon, N. and
Bharadwaj, D.: Common variants of SLAMF1 and ITLN1 on 1q21 are associated with type 2
diabetes in Indian population., Journal of Human Genetics; 57(3),184-190, Online Version: DOI:
10.1038/jhg.2011.150, 2012.
Tabassum, R., Mahendran, Y., Dwivedi, O.P., Chauhan, G., Ghosh, S., Marwaha,
R.K., Tandon, N. and Bharadwaj, D.: Common variants of IL6, LEPR, and PBEF1 are
associated with obesity in Indian children, Diabetes, 61(3), 626-631, 2012.
Thalamuthu, Anbupalam, Zhao, Jingyuan, Garrett Teoh Hor Keong, Kondragunta

Venkateswarlu and Mukhopadhyay, I.: Association tests for rare and common variants based on
genotypic and phenotypic measures of similarity between individuals, BMC Proceedings, 5(Suppl. 9),
S89, 2011.
Ziegler, A., Ghosh, S., Dyer, T.D., Blangero, J., MacCluer, J. and Almasy, L.:
Introduction to genetic analysis workshop 17 summaries, Genet Epidemiol, 35(Suppl. 1), S1-4, Online
Version: DOI: 10.1002/gepi.20641, 2011.

Barua, R. (SMU, Kolkata), Chakravarty, Satya R. and Sarkar, Palash (ASU): Measuring P-power of
voting, Journal of Economic Theory and Social Development, 1, 81-91, 2011.
Bharati, P. (BAU), Chaudhury, P., Pal, Manoranjan, Bharati, S. (SRU) and Som, S. (SRU): Is son
preference pervasive in India?, Journal of Gender Studies, 20(3), 291-298, 2011.
Bharati, P. (BAU), Pal, Manoranjan, Bharati, S. (SRU) and Chakrabarty, S. (SRU): Trends in socio-
economic and nutritional status of under six children in India, Asia Pacific Journal of Public Health,
23(3), 324–340, 2011.
Bharati S. (SRU), Pal M, Bandyopadhyay, M., Bhakta, A., Chakraborty, S. and Bharati P. (BAU):
Prevalence and Causes of Low Birth Weight in India, Malaysian Journal of Nutrition, 17, 301-313,
2011.
Chakrabarti, Snigdha, and Sharma, Biswas, Chaiti: An exploratory analysis of women’s empowerment
in India: a structural equation modelling approach, Journal of Development Studies, 48(1), 164-180,
2012.
Chakravarty, Satya R.: A reconsideration of the tradeoffs in the new human development index,
Journal of Economic Inequality, 9, 471-474, 2011.
Chakravarty, Satya R.: On tradeoffs in the human development indices, Indian Journal of Human
Development, 5, 517-525, 2011.
Chakravarty, Satya R. and Maharaj, Bhargav: Measuring ethnic polarization, Social Choice and
Welfare, 37, 431-452, 2011.
167
Publications
Chakravarty, Satya R. and Maharaj, Bhargav: Subgroup decomposable inequality indices and
reduced-form indices of polarization, Keio Economic Studies, 47, 57-83, 2011.
Chakravarty, Satya R. and Maharaj, Bhargav: Ethnic polarization orderings and indices, Journal of
Economic Interaction and Coordination, 7, 99-123, 2012.
Coondoo, D., Majumder, Amita and Chattopadhyay, Somnath: District-level poverty estimation:
a proposed method, Journal of Applied Statistics, 38(10), 2327–2343, 2011.
Das, Saswati and Mukherjee, Diganta (SOSU): Measuring Deprivation due to Child Work and Child
Labour: A study for Indian Children, Child Indicators Research, 4(3), 453-466, 2011.
De, Utpal Kumar and Pal, Manoranjan: Dimensions of globalization and their effects on economic
growth and human development, Asian Economic and Financial Review, 1(1), 1-13, 2011.
De, Utpal Kumar and Pal, Manoranjan: Willingness to Pay for Domestic Water Use: A Study of Hilly
Urban Area in North-East India: Asian-African Journal of Economics and Econometrics, 11(2), 333-
350, 2011.
Gupta, Manash Ranjan and Dutta, B.P.: Skilled-unskilled wage inequality, product variety, public
input and increasing returns: a static general equilibrium analysis, Economic Modelling, 29, 502–513,
2012.
Gupta, Manash Ranjan and Dutta, B.P.: Skilled-unskilled wage inequality and unemployment: a
general equilibrium analysis, Economic Modelling, 28, 1977–1983, 2011.
Mitra, Manipushpak and Mutuswami, Suresh: Group strategyproofness in queueing models,

Games and Economic Behavior, 72, 242-254, 2011.
Neogi, Chiranjib, Ray, Kamal and Das, Chandra, Ramesh: Economics of Summer Paddy-Jute
Substitution: a profile of environmental cost, Asian Journal of Research in Sciences and Humanities,
2(3), 2012.
Kabiraj, T. and Lee, C.C.: Licensing contracts in Hotelling Structure, Theoretical Economics Letters,
1(3), 57-62, 2011.
Kabiraj, T. and Lee, C.C.: Technology transfer in a duopoly with horizontal and vertical product
differentiation”, Trade and Development Review, 4 (1), 19-40, 2011.
Pal, Jadab Kumar, Pal, Manoranjan, Tiwari, Hare Ram and Bharati, P. (BAU): Risk Factors
Associated with Morbidity Pattern of Working Children Journal of Life Science, 3(2), 147-156, 2011.
Pal, Manoranjan, Pal, Jadab K. (Legal Cell), Tiwari, Hare Ram and Bharati, P. (BAU): What
Makes Child Labour Go to School?, International Labour Review, 150(3-4), 375-386, 2011.
Sarkar, N. and Mukhopadhyay, D.: Long-Run Predictability in the Indian Stock Market, Finance
India, 25(3), 817-834, 2011.
Sen, Pronab, Bharati, Susmita (SRU), Som, Suparna (SRU), Pal, Manoranjan and Bharati, P.
[BAU]: Growth and nutritional status of pre-school children in India: A study of two recent time periods,
Food and Nutrition Bulletin, 32, 84-93, 2011.
168
Publications
Dasgupta, Probal: Retrieving the cognitive from the industrial: the translator as apprentice, Translation
Today, 6(1-2), 72-96, 2011.
Dasgupta, Probal: Kothaay dnaarxaaye du baahu baarxaaye, Mallar, 13(1), 233-46, 2011.
Dasgupta, Probal: Notun poribese Lakshmiswar Sinhake bosiye deakhaa, Alochonachakra, 30,148-
155, 2011.
Dasgupta, Probal: Raashtxro caai naa, aain caai: Noam Chomskyr noiraajjobaader kichu sutro,
Alochonachakra, 31, 7-16, 2011.
Dasgupta, Probal: La vizaghoj de la serioza paclaboro, La Lanterno Azia, 37(1), 4-5, 2011.
Dasgupta, Probal: Imperatives, interrogatives and wide scope in Bangla, Indian Linguistics, 72, 103-
112, 2011.
Dasgupta, Probal: Fear and beauty in Tagore’s Naibedya, Jadavpur Journal of Comparative Literature,
48, 93-114, 2011.
Dasgupta, Probal: Bhaasaar punorbibeconaa o Rabindranath, Parikatha, 14(1), 1-16, 2011.
Dasgupta, Probal: Ni pioniras la simetriemon, Revuo Esperanto, 104(3), 51, 2011.
Dasgupta, Probal: Kopenhago signifu reagordon, Revuo Esperanto, 104(5), 99, 2011.
Dasgupta, Probal: Teatro de kultura interproksimigo, Revuo Esperanto, 104(6), 127, 2011.
Dasgupta, Probal: Kunludu sur la podio, Revuo Esperanto, 104(6), 141, 2011.
Dasgupta, Probal: Kopenhaga inaugura parolado, Revuo Esperanto, 104(10), 196-7, 2011.
Dasgupta, Probal: Post kiam Gautamo ighis Budho, Revuo Esperanto, 105(1), 3, 2012.
Dasgupta, Probal: En la lasta semajno de februaro ni chiujare festas SIA, Revuo Esperanto, 105(2), 4,
2012.
Dasgupta, Probal: Kiel la japana tertremo aspektis al kolkatano, Formoza Folio, 14, 20-21, 2012.
Dasgupta, Probal: Niukliyo kampleks: siriyaas onushandhaaner ektxi baadhaa (tr Anuradha De),
Alochonachakra, 32, 7-17, 2012.
Dash, Niladri Sekhar: Yantranubad: Tathyayuger Kamdhenu, Computer Jagat, 3(1), 17-23, 2011.
Dash, Niladri Sekhar: Use of English corpora as a primary resource to teach English to the Bengali
learners, Indian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 37(1), 7-18, 2011.
Dash, Niladri Sekhar: The Bengali Script and the Unicode, Print Out, 2(8), 1-16, 2011.
Dash, Niladri Sekhar: Baidyutin Bangla Abhdhan tairi karar kichu samasya, Alochanachakra, 32(1),
166-178, 2012.
Dash, Niladri Sekhar: Some physical advantages of an electronic dictionary, Indian Linguistics, 71(1-
4), 93-102, 2011.
169
Publications
Planning Unit
Afridi Farzana: The Impact of School Meals on School Participation in Rural India, Journal of
Development Studies (Special Section on Impact Evaluation), 47(11), 1636-1656, 2011.
Das, Satya. P.: International Trade and Polarization in the Labor Market, Economics: The Open-
Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal, 6, 2012-2016, Online Version: DOI:
http://dx.doi.org/10.5018/economics-ejournal.ja.2012-6, 2012.
Mishra, Debasis and Sen, Arunava: Roberts’ Theorem with Neutrality: A Social Welfare Ordering
Approach, Games and Economic Behavior, 75, 283-298, 2012.
Mishra, Debasis and Dutta, Bhaskar: Minimum Cost Arborescences, Games and Economic Behavior,
74, 120-143, 2012.
Mukhopadhyay, Abhiroop and Rajaraman, Indira: Rural Housing Quality as an Indicator of

Consumption Sustainability, Economic and Political Weekly, 47(13), 112-117, 2012.
Mukhopadhyay, Abhiroop, Mohanti, B.K., Das, S., Sharma, K. and Dash, S.: The
Economic Burden of Cancer, Economic and Political Weekly, 43(46), 112-117, 2011.
Rajaraman, Indira: Fiscal Impact of Trade Tariff Reform: Long-Series Historical Evidence for the US
and Canada, Global Policy, 3:3, 2012.
Rajaraman, Indira: Response to Rakshit on the Finance Commission, Economic and Political Weekly,
XLVI: 13, 137-139, 2011.
Ramaswami, Bharat, Pray, Carl E. and Lalitha, N.: The Spread of Illegal Transgenic Cotton
Varieties in India: Biosafety Regulation, Monopoly and Enforcement, World Development, 40(1), 177-
188, 2011.
Ramaswami, Bharat, Kotwal, Ashok and Wadhwa, Wilima: Economic Liberalization and Indian
Economic Growth: What's the Evidence?, Journal of Economic Literature, 49(4), 1152-1199, 2011.
Ramaswami, Bharat, Kotwal, Ashok and Murugkar, Milind: PDS Forever?, Economic and
Political Weekly, XLVI (21), 72-76, 2011.
Ray Tridip, Gurnani, Haresh, Gumus, Mehmet and Ray, Saibal: Optimal Procurement
Strategy Under Supply Risk, Asia-Pacific Journal of Operational Research, 29(1), 1240006-1 -
1240006-31, 2012.
Roy Chowdhury, Prabal: Porter hypothesis and hyperbolic discounting, Economics Bulletin, 31, 167-
176, 2011.
Sen, Arunava: The Gibbard random dictatorship theorem: a generalization and a new proof, SERIEs,
Journal of the Spanish Economic Association, 2(4), 515-527, 2011.
Sen, Arunava and Dutta, Bhaskar: Nash Implementation with Partially Honest Players, Games and
Economic Behavior, 74(1), 154-169, 2012.
Somanathan, E. and Ray Chaudhuri, Arka: Impact of Biometric Identification-based transfers,

Economic and Political Weekly, 46(21), 77-80, 2011.
170
Publications
Barman, Subhash: Socio-economic and demographic impact on child labour in India, Journal of
Alternative Perspectives in the Social Sciences, 3, 376-403, 2011.
Datta, Pranati: Female trafficking and illegal migration from Bangladesh to India, Pakistan Journal of
Women Studies, 18, 47-62, 2011.
Datta Pranati: Trafficking and illegal female Nepali migration in India, International Journal of Afro
Asian Studies, 2, 34-44, 2011.
Datta, Pranati: Immigration from Bangladesh to India: Causes, consequences and policy, International
Journal of Mainstream Social Sciences, 1, 11-22, 2011.
Psychology Research Unit
Basak, R. and Ghosh, A.: School environment and locus of control in relation to job satisfaction
among school teachers – a study from Indian perspective, Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences,
29, 1199-1208, 2011.
Basak, R. and Ghosh, A.: Locus of control and personality traits: a study on school teachers, Indian
Journal of Health Research & Wellbeing, 2(4), 723- 724, 2011.
Bhattacharya, H.: Non-verbal thinking of creativity and intelligence of secondary school students,
Journal of the Indian Academy of Applied Psychology, 38 (1), 144-148, 2012.
Ray, Anjali, Chatterjee, Sanjukta and Bhattacharya, H.: A study on the level of aggression:
daily activities, attention and adjustment among adolescent students, Journal of Psychometry, 25(2),
60-65. 2011.
Dutta Roy, D.: Construct validity of Reading motivation, Journal of the Indian Academy of Applied
Psychology, 37(1), 106-113, 2011.
Dutta Roy, D., Ghosh, S. and Rahman, F.H.: Perceived environmental uncertainty in crop
cultivation in West Bengal: Agro Psychological counselling perspective, Indian Journal of Psychology,
Special issue, 111-120, 2012.
Gupta, Rumki and Dhara, Jayeta: Dimensions of self-concept: a factor analytic study, Indian
Journal of Social Science Researches, 7(2), 92-99, 2010.
Kundu, A. and Dutta Roy, D.: A people-centric approach in adoption of Innovation: a review and
directions for future research, Asian Journal of Management Research, Special Issue (1), 49-58,
2011.
Karmakar, R. and Ghosh, A.: Altruistic behaviour of adolescents of different regions of India,
Journal of the Indian Academy of Applied Psychology, 38(1), 44-53, 2012.
Shaikh, F.A. and Ghosh, A.: Effect of social support and self-efficacy on depression among recovering
substance users, Journal of Psychosocial Research, 6(2), 211-219, 2011.
171
Publications
Bharati, Susmita, Pal, Manoranjan (ERU), Chakrabarty, Suman and Bharati, Premananda (BAU):
Trends in socio-economic and nutritional status of children younger than 6 years in India, Asia-Pacific
Journal of Public Health, 23(3), 324- 340, 2011.
Bharati, Susmita, Shome, Suparna, Pal, Manoranjan (ERU), Chaudhury, Prabir and Bharati, P.
(BAU): Is son preference pervasive in India?, Journal of Gender Studies, 20(3), 291-298, 2011.
Bharati, S., Pal, M. (ERU), Bandyopadhyay, M., Bhakta, A., Chakrabarty, S and Bharati, P. (BAU):
Prevalence and causes of low birth weight in India, Malaysian Journal of Nutrition, 17, 301- 313, 2011.
Chattopadhyay, Molly and Chakraborty, Sonali: Decline of Mica Industry, informalization, unionisation
and consequences for women workers, Indian Journal of Gender Studies, 18(1), 311-340, 2011.
Ghosh, Bholanath: Industrialization efforts in Singur and its consequences, South Asian
Anthropologist, 2, 115-120, 2011.
Ghosh, Bholanath and Bhattacharya, Asmita: Women in information communication technology, Asian
Journal of Science and Technology, 2(3), 6-14, 2011.
Ghosh, Bholanath: Helpless Women: In the context of the present Fundamentalism & Globalization,
Jadavpur University Journal of Sociology, 4(4), 86-97, 2011.
Ramachandran, V.K.: Agrarian relations and village studies, Indian Journal of Labour Economics,
54(2), 2011.
Rawal, Vikas and Swaminathan, Madhura: Income inequality and caste in village India, Review of
Agrarian Studies, 1(2), 108-133, 2011.
Sen, Pronab, Bharati, Susmita, Som, Suparna, Pal, Manoranjan (ERU) and Bharati, Premananda
(BAU): Growth and nutritional status of pre-school children in India: A study of two recent time periods,
Food and Nutrition Bulletin, 32, 84-93, 2011.
Swaminathan, Madhura and Rawal, Vikas: Is India a country of low income inequality, Review of
Agrarian Studies, 1(1), 1-22, 2011.
Swaminathan, Madhura and Rawal, Vikas: Are there benefits from the cultivation of bt cotton? A
comment based on data from a Vidarbha village, Review of Agrarian Studies, 1(1), 101-124, 2011.
SQC & OR Unit, Bangalore
Antony, J., Gijo, E.V. and Childe, S.J.: Case study in Six Sigma methodology: manufacturing
quality improvement and guidance for managers, Production Planning and Control: The Management
of Operations. Online Version: DOI: 10.1080/09537287.2011.576404, 2011.
Gijo, E.V., Scaria, J. and Antony, J.: Application of Six Sigma Methodology to Reduce Defects
of a Grinding Process, Quality and Reliability Engineering International, 27(8), 1221-1234, 2011.
172
Publications
Gijo, E.V. and Scaria, J.: Product design by application of Taguchi's robust engineering using
computer simulation, International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing, Online Version:
DOI: 10.1080/0951192X.2012.665186, 2012.
Gijo, E.V.: 11 ways to sink your Six Sigma project, Six Sigma Forum Magazine, American Society for
Quality, 11(1), 27-29, 2011.
John, Boby: Optimization of actuator performance using robust engineering and feature selection
methodologies: a case study, International Journal of Productivity and Performance Management,
60(6), 642–652, 2011.
John, Boby: Simultaneous optimization of multiple performance characteristics of carbonitrided pellets:

a case study, International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, Online Version: DOI:
10.1007/s00170-011-3751-2, 2011.
Ray, Sanjit, P. Das, Bhattacharya, B.K. and Antony, Jiju: Measuring Six-Sigma Project
Effectiveness using Fuzzy Approach, Quality Reliability Engineering International, Wiley Online
Library, Online Version: DOI: 10.1002/qre.1391, 2012.
Ray, Sanjit, and John, B.: Lean Six-Sigma application in business process outsourced organization,
International Journal of Lean Six-Sigma, 2(4), 371-380, 2011.
Ray, Sanjit, Das, P. and Bhattacharya, B.K.: Prevention of Industrial Accidents Using Six Sigma
Approach, International Journal of Lean Six Sigma, 2(3), 196-214, 2011.
Ray, Sanjit: Improve Machining Process Capability by Using Six Sigma, International Journal for
Quality Research, 5(2), 109-122, 2011.
Saravanan, S., Meera, M., Prakash, S. and Gijo, E.V.: Efficiency improvement on the
multicrystalline silicon wafer through six sigma methodology, International Journal of Sustainable
Energy, Online Version: DOI: 10.1080/1478646X.2011.554981, 2011.
Ravindran, G., Parthasarathy, T. and Nagarajan, K.: On Solving Sub Clauses of Multiplayer
Stochastic Games via Linear Complementarity Problem – A Survey, Journal of Optimization and
Engineering, Springer, 1-23, Online Version: DOI: 10.1007/s11081-011-9163-1, 2011.
Ravindran, G., Gowda, M.S. and Tao J.: Some Complementarity Problems of Z and Lyoponov-like
transformations on Euclidean Jordan Algebra, Linear Algebra and its Applications, 436, 2201-2209,
2011.
Pal, Surajit and Udaya Kumar, S.: Improving Performance of a Sandblasting Process, International
Journal on Productivity and Quality Management, 7(4), 395–409, 2011.
SQC & OR Unit, New Delhi
Chakravorty, Rina, Gauri, Susanta Kumar and Chakraborty, Shankar: Optimisation of Correlated
Responses of EDM Process, Materials and Manufacturing Processes, 27(3), 337-347, 2012.
Neogy, S.K, Das, A. and Gupta, A.: Generalized principal pivot transforms, complementarity theory
and their applications in stochastic games, Optimization Letters, 6(2), 339-356, 2012.
173
Publications
SQC & OR Unit, Kolkata
Anis, M.Z. and Basu, K.: The exact null distribution of the generalized Hollander–Proschan type test
for NBUE alternatives, Statistics and Probability Letters, 81, 1733-1737, 2011.
Anis, M.Z.: Testing for NBUL using goodness of fit approach with applications, Statistical Papers,
Online Version: DOI: 10.2007/s00362-007-0113-0, 52, 743-747, 2011.
Anis, M.Z.: Testing whether a survival distribution function is RNBRU, Journal of Applied Statistical
Science, 18(1), 125-136, 2011.
Anis, M.Z. and Mitra, M.: A Generalized Hollander-Proschan type test for NBUE alternatives,
Statistics and Probability Letters, 81, 126-132, 2011.
Anis, M.Z.: Testing exponentiality against NBUL alternatives using positive and negative fractional
moments, Economic Quality Control, 26, 215-234, 2011.
Bag, M., Gauri, S.K. and Chakraborty, S.: Feature-based Decision Rules for Control Chart
Pattern Recognition: A Comparison between CART and QUEST Algorithms, International Journal of
Industrial Engineering and Computation, 3(2), 199-210, 2012.
Bag, M., Gauri, S.K. and Chakraborty, S.: An Expert System for Control Chart Pattern
Recognition, International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, Online Version: DOI:
10.1007/s00170-011-3799-z, 2011.
Chakravorty, R. (SQC & OR Unit, Delhi), Gauri, S.K. and Chakraborty, S.: Optimization of
Correlated Responses of EDM Process, Materials and Manufacturing Processes, 27(3), 337-347,
2012.
Chaudhuri, D., Mukhopadhyay, A.R. and Ghosh, S.K.: Assessment of engineering colleges
through application of the six sigma metrics in a state of India, International Journal of Quality and
Reliability Management, 28 (9), 969-1002, 2011.
Das, N.: Control Charts Based on the g-and-h Distribution, Economic Quality Control, 26 (1), 3-14,
2011.
Das, N.: Monitoring time between failure of a vertical boring machine using statistical process control,
International Journal of Production and Quality Engineering (IJPQE), 2(1), 49-53, 2011.
Das, N., Ghosh, A. and Das, P.: Mining Association Rules to Evaluate Consumer Perception: A
New FP-Tree Approach, International Journal for Quality Research, 5(2), 89-102, 2011.
Das, N.: Control Charts for Controlling Variability of Non-Normal Processes, Economic Quality Control,
26(2), 121-131, 2011.
Dewanji, A., Sengupta, D. and Chakraborty, A.K.: A Discrete Time Model for Software Reliability with
Application to a Flight Control Software, Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry, 27, 723-
731, 2011.
Gauri, S.K.: Globally Applicable Control Chart for Online Monitoring of Stability of Process Mean,
Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, 81(12), 1847-1869, 2011.
174
Publications
Gauri, S.K.: Improved Feature-based Test Statistic for Assessing Suitability of the Preliminary
Samples for Constructing Control Limits of X Chart, International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing
Technology, 58(9), 1171-1187, 2012.
Gauri, S.K.: Improving Yarn Quality through Multi-response Optimization of Electronic Yarn Clearer in
Winding Machine, International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, 56(1), 387-396, 2011.
Kundu, D. and Pradhan, B.: Bayesian analysis of progressively censored competing risks data,
Sankhya Series B, 73(2), 276-296, 2011.
Mandal, P.: Signal-to-noise ratio: a fundamental and broad process performance measure, Journal of
Engineering Design, Online Version: DOI:10.1080/09544828.2012.662274, 2012.
Neogy, S.K. and Das, A.K.: Generalized monotone maps and complementarity problems, Nonconvex
Optimization and its Applications, S.K. Mishra (ed.), Springer Optimization and its Applications, 50, 27-
44, 2011.
Neogy, S.K., Das, A.K. and Gupta, A.: Generalized Principal Pivot Transforms, Complementarity
Theory and their Applications in Stochastic Games, Optimization Letters, 6, 339-356, 2012.
Pradhan, B. and Kundu, D.: Bayes estimation and prediction of the two parameter gamma
distribution, Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, 81, 1187-1198, 2011.
Pradhan, B. and Dewanji, A.: Semi-parametric estimation of quality adjusted lifetime distribution in
semi-Markov illness-death model, Sankhya Series B, 73(1), 81-104, 2011.
Roy, T.K., Mukhopadhyay, A.R., Ghosh, S.K. and Majumder, G.: Influence of Honking on the
Noisier Situation (L10), Noise Control Engineering Journal, 60(2), 132-136, 2012.
Sarkar, A. (SQC & OR Unit, Mumbai), Mukhopadhyay, A.R. and Ghosh, S.K.: Selection of critical
processes for “process improvement”, International Journal of Lean Six Sigma, 2(4), 356-370, 2011.
Sarkar, A. (SQC & OR Unit, Mumbai), Mukhopadhyay, A.R. and Ghosh, S.K.: Practitioner
perspective - comparison of performance appraisal score: a modified methodology, Research and
Practice - Human Resource Management, 19(2), 92-100, 2011.
SQC & OR Unit, Mumbai
Sarkar, Ashok, Mukhopadhyay, Arup R. (SQC & OR Unit, Kolkata) and Ghosh, Sadhan K.:
Improvement of service quality by reducing waiting time for service, Simulation Modelling Practice and
Theory, 19, 1689-1698, 2011.
Sarkar, Ashok, Mukhopadhyay Arup R. (SQC & OR Unit, Kolkata) and Ghosh, Sadhan K.:
Selection of critical processes for process improvement, International Journal of Lean Six Sigma, 2,
356-370, 2011.
Sarkar, Ashok, Mukhopadhyay Arup R. (SQC & OR Unit, Kolkata) and Ghosh, Sadhan K.:
Comparison of performance appraisal scores among different functions, Research and Practice in
Human Resource Management, 19, 92-100, 2011.
175
Publications
Library, Kolkata
Basak, Nanda Dulal: Web-er gabhirey tathy-er sandhan (= Deep web information search) (In Bengali),
RBU Journal of Library & Information Science, 14, 55–60, 2011.
Pal, Jiban K.: Review on matrimonial information systems and services - an Indian perspective,
International Research Journal of Library Information and Archival Studies, 1(4), 126-135, 2011.
Chowdhury, L. and Chakraborty, M.K.: On representing Open Universe, Studies in Logic, 5(1), 57-73,
2012.
Kundu, M.K., Chowdhury, M. and Banerjee, M.: Interactive Image Retrieval using M-band wavelet,
Earth Mover's Distance and Fuzzy Relevance Feedback, International Journal of Machine Learning
and Cybernetic (IJMLC), Online Version: DOI: 10.1007/s13042-011-0062-8, 2012.
Ganivada, A., Dutta, S. and Pal, S.K.: Fuzzy rough granular neural networks, fuzzy granules and
classification, Theoretical Computer Science, 412(42), 5834-5853, 2011.
Ganivada, A. and Pal, S.K.: A novel fuzzy rough granular neural network for classification,
International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems, 4(5), 1042-1051, 2011.
Halder, A., Ghosh, A. and Ghosh, S.: Supervised and unsupervised landuse map generation from
remotely sensed images using ant based systems, Applied Soft Computing, Elsevier, 11(8), 5770-
5781, 2011.
Kalia, H., Dehuri, S. and Ghosh, A.: Multi-objective genetic algorithms for classification rule mining: a
survey, The IUP Journal of Information Technology, 7, 7-34, 2011.
Maity, S.P. and Kundu, M.K: Perceptually adaptive spread transform image watermarking scheme
using Hadamard transform, Information Sciences, 181, 450-465, 2011.
Meher, S.K. and Pal, S.K.: Rough-wavelet granular space and classification of multispectral remote
sensing image, Applied Soft Computing, 11(8), 5662-5673, 2011.
Mishra, S.P., Dehuri, S., Mall, R. and Ghosh, A.: Parallel single and multiple objectives genetic
algorithms: a survey, International Journal of Applied Evolutionary Computation, 2, 21-57, 2011.
Patra, S., Ghosh, S. and Ghosh, A.: Histogram thresholding for unsupervised change detection
of remote sensing images, International Journal of Remote Sensing, 32(21), 6071-6089, 2012.
Pal, S.K., Meher, S.K. and Dutta, S.: Class-Dependent rough-fuzzy granular space dispersion
index and classification, Pattern Recognition, 45(7), 2690-2707, 2012.
Ray, S.S., Bandyopadhyay, S. and Pal, S.K.: A weighted power framework for integrating multi-
source information: gene function prediction in yeast, IEEE Transactions of Biomedical Engineering,
59(4), 1162-1168, 2012.
176
Publications
Sen, D. and Pal, S.K.: Improving feature space based image segmentation via density modification,
Information Sciences, 191, pp. 169-191, 2012.
Sen, D. and Pal, S.K.: Automatic exact histogram specification for contrast enhancement and visual
system based quantitative evaluation, IEEE Trans. Image Processing, 20(5), 1211-1220, 2011.
Uma Shankar, B., Meher, S.K. and Ghosh, A.: Wavelet-fuzzy-hybridization: feature-extraction and
land-cover classification of remote sensing images, Applied Soft Computing, 11, 2099-3011, 2011.
Papers Published in Conference Proceedings
Dasgupta, R.: Discrete distributions with application to lifestyle data, International Conference on
Productivity, Quality, Reliability, Optimization and Modeling Proceedings, Allied Publishers, New Delhi,
Vol.-1, 502-520, 2011.
Dewan, Isha and Kattumannil, Sudheesh: Ageing Concepts for Discrete Data- A Relook,
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Quality and Reliability, Bangkok, 200-204, 2011.
Dewan, Isha: Modelling two component load sharing system, Proceedings of the 7th International
Conference on Mathematical Methods in Reliability: Theory, Methods and Applications, Lirong Cui and
Xian Zhao (eds.), BIT Press, Beijing, 521-526, 2011.
Hare, K., Laishram, S. and Stoll, T.: Stolarsky's conjecture and the sum of digits of polynomial
values, Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, 1, 39-49, 2011.
Nandi, S. and Dewan, Isha: Estimating the parameters of bivariate Weibull distribution under random
censoring, Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Mathematical Methods in Reliability:
Theory, Methods and Applications (MMR2011), Lirong Cui and Xian Zhao (eds.), BIT Press, Beijing,
320-325, 2011.
Bagchi, Bhaskar: On Characterizing Designs by their Codes, Proceedings of a Satellite Conference,

ICM 2010, Buildings, Finite geometries and Groups, N.S. Narasimha Sastry (ed.), Springer
Proceedings in Mathematics, 10, 1-14, 2011.
Bharali, Gautam and Gorai, Sushil: Uniform algebras generated by holomorphic and close-to-
harmonic functions, Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, 139(6), 2183-2189, 2011.
Guivarc'h, Y. and Raja, C.R.E.: Polynomial Growth, Recurrence and Ergodicity for Random
Walks on Locally Compact Groups and Homogeneous Spaces, Progress in Probability, 64, 65-74,
2011.
177
Publications
Sastry, N.S.N.: Some Equations over Finite Fields Related to Simple Groups of Suzuki and Ree
Types, Proceedings of a Satellite Conference, ICM 2010, Buildings, Finite geometries and Groups,
N.S. Narasimha Sastry (ed.), Springer Proceedings in Mathematics, 10, 251-271, 2011.
Maitra, S., Paul, G. and Sengupta, S.: Attack on Broadcast RC4 Revisited, Proceedings 18th
International Workshop on Fast Software Encryption (FSE 2011), 199-217, 2011.
Das, A., Maitra, S., Paul, G. and Sarkar, S.: Some Combinatorial Results towards State Recovery
Attack on RC4, Proceedings 7th International Conference on Information Systems Security (ICISS
2011), 204-214, 2011.
Banik, S., Maitra, S. and Sarkar, S.: On the Evolution of GGHN Cipher, Proceedings 12th
International Conference on Cryptology in India (INDOCRYPT 2011), 181-195, 2011.
Paul, G., Maitra, S. and Raizada, S.: A Theoretical Analysis of the Structure of HC-128,
Proceedings 6th International Workshop on Security (IWSEC 2011), 161-177, 2011.
Sengupta, S., Maitra, S., Paul, G. and Sarkar, S.: Proof of Empirical RC4 Biases and New
Key Correlations, 18th International Workshop on Selected Areas in Cryptography (SAC 2011), 151-
168, 2011.
Chatterjee, S., Menezes, A. and Sarkar, P.: Another Look at Tightness, 18th International
Workshop on Selected Areas in Cryptography (SAC 2011), 293-319, 2011.
Computer and Communications Sciences Division
Banik, A., Bhattacharya, B.B. and Das, S.: Minimum Enclosing Circle of a Set of Fixed Points and
a Mobile Point, Workshop on Algorithms and Computation (WALCOM 2011), Lecture Notes in
Computer Science 6552, Springer, 98-109, 2011.
Banik, A., Bhattacharya, B.B. and Das, S.: Optimal Strategies for the One-Round Discrete Voronoi
Game on a Line, 17th Annual International Conference on Computing and Combinatorics (COCOON
2011), Dallas, Texus, USA, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 6842, Springer, 213-224, 2011.
Bandyopadhyay, O., Chanda, B. and Bhattacharya, B.B.: Entropy-based automatic

segmentation of bones in digital X-ray images, Proceedings of PReMI, Moscow, Springer, Lecture
Notes in Computer Science, 6744, 122-129, 2011.
Banerjee, A., Ghosh, S.C. and Banerjee, N.: Pack Your Sack for the Cloud, Proceedings of the 5th
India Software Engineering Conference (ISEC), 157-16, 2012.
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Banerjee, A., Hazra, A., Dasgupta, P. and Harer, K.: Formal Methods for Coverage Analysis
of Architectural Power States in Power-Managed Designs, Proceedings of International Conference on
Asia South Pacific Design Automation (ASPDAC), 585-590, 2012.
Banerjee, A. and Bhattacharya, R.: Debugging Programs with Contract Information, Proceedings
of International Conference on Software Technology and Engineering (ICSTE), 233-238, 2011.
Banerjee, A.: Requirement Evolution Management: A systematic approach, Proceedings of IEEE

Computer Society Annual International Symposium on VLSI (ISVLSI), 150-155, 2011.
Bhattacharya, A. Ghosh, R., Sinha, K. and Sinha, B.P.: Multimedia communication in cognitive radio
networks based on sample division multiplexing, Third International Conference on Communication
Systems and Networks (COMSNETS), IEEE, 1-8, Online Version: DOI:
10.1109/COMSNETS.2011.5716435, 2011.
Bhowmick, S., Tiwari, O., Sur-Kolay, S. and Bhattacharya, B.B.: Test pattern generation for Multi-cycle
Power Droop using SAT solver, European Test Symposium, Online Version:
http://www.iet.ntnu.no/workshop/ets2011, Trondheim, Norway, 2011.
Chen, Z., Seth, S.C., Xiang, D. and Bhattacharya, B.B.: Diagnosis of multiple scan-chain
faults in the presence of system logic defects, Proceedings of Asian Test Symposium, IEEE CS Press,
297-302, 2011.
Datta A. and Sur-Kolay S., TSV aware Scan Chain Re-ordering for 3D ICs, IEEE Annual
Symposium on VLSI (ISVLSI), Chennai, 188-193, 2011.
Dash, D., Bishnu, A., Gupta, A. and Nandy, S.C.: Finding the Quality of Line Coverage of a Sensor
Network, International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking (ICDCN), 214-217, 2012.
Dash D., Bishnu, A., Gupta, A. and Nandy, S.C.: Approximation algorithms for deployment of
sensors for line segment coverage in wireless sensor networks, Conference on Communication
Systems and Networks (COMSNETS), Online Version: DOI: 10.1109/COMSNET.2012.6151346,
2012.
De, M., Maheshwari, A., Nandy, S.C. and Smid, M.H.M.: An In-Place Priority Search Tree,
Canadian Conference on Computational Geometry (CCCG), 331-336, 2011.
De, M., Das, G.K. and Nandy, S.C.: Approximation Algorithms for the Discrete Piercing Set
Problem for Unit Disks, Canadian Conference on Computational Geometry (CCCG), 375-380, 2011.
De, M. and Nandy, S. C.: Space-efficient Algorithms for Empty Space Recognition among a Point Set
in 2D and 3D, Canadian Conference on Computational Geometry (CCCG), 347-353, 2011.
Dutta, A., Gan Chaudhuri S., Datta, S. and Mukhopadhyaya, K.: Circle Formation by
Asynchronous Fat Robots with Limited Visibility, Proceedings of 8th International Conference of
Distributed Computing and Internet Technology, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5966, 83-94,
2012.
Dutta, A., Gan Chaudhuri S., Datta, S. and Mukhopadhyaya, K.: Circle Formation by
Asynchronous Fat Robots with Limited Visibility, Proceedings of 8th International Conference of
Distributed Computing and Internet Technology, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5966, 83-94,
2012.
179
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Masrur, A., Goswami, D., Chen, J.J., Chakraborty, S., Annaswamy, A. and
Banerjee, A.: Timing Analysis of Cyber-Physical Applications for Hybrid Communication Protocols,
Proceedings of Design Automation and Test in Europe, Germany, 1233-1238, 2012.
Mandal, S.B., Chakrabarti, A. and Sur-Kolay, S.: Synthesis techniques for Ternary Quantum
Logic, Proceedings of IEEE 41st International Symposium on Multiple-Valued Logic (ISMVL), Tuusula,
Finland, 218-223, May 23-25, 2011.
Mitra, S., Banerjee, A. and Dasgupta, P.: Formal Methods for Ranking Counterexamples through
Assumption Mining, Proceedings of Design Automation and Test in Europe, Germany, 911-916, 2012.
Mitra, D., Ghoshal, S., Rahaman, H., Chakrabarty, K. and Bhattacharya, B.B.: On
residue removal in digital microfluidic biochips, Proceedings of ACM Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI,
391-394, 2011.
Mukhopadhyay, S., Banerjee P. and Sur-Kolay, S.: Balanced Bipartitioning of a multi-weighted

hypergraph for heterogenous FPGAs, Proceedings of VII Southern Programmable Logic Conference,
Cordoba, Argentina, 91-96, 2011.
Mukherjee, J., Sinha, Mahapatra P.R., Karmakar A. and Das, S.: Minimum Width
Rectangular Annulus, Frontiers in Algorithmics and Algorithmic Aspects in Information and
Management (FAW-AAIM 2011), Lecture Notes in Computer Science 6681, Springer, Jinhua, China,
364-374, 2011.
Karmakar, N., Biswas, A., Bhowmick, P. and Bhattacharya, B.B: Construction of 3D

orthogonal cover of a digital object, Proceedings of 14th International Workshop on Combinatorial
Image Analysis (IWCIA), Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science 6636, 73-83, 2011.
Komuravelli, A., Mitra, S., Banerjee, A. and Dasgupta, P.: Backward Reasoning with
Formal Properties: A methodology for bug isolation on simulation traces, Proceedings of International
Asian Test Symposium (ATS), 238-243, 2011.
Sarkar, A., Biswas A., Bhowmick, P. and Bhattacharya, B.B.: Combinatorial construction of
the orthogonal concavity tree of a digital object, Proceedings of Emerging Applications of Information
Technology (EAIT), IEEE CS Press, 210-213, 2011.
Sinha, K. and Sinha, B.P.: Energy-efficient communication: understanding the distribution of runs in
binary strings, Proceedings of 1st International Conference on Recent Advances on Information
Technology (RAIT-2012), Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad, 202-206, 2012.
Sinha Mahapatra, P.R., Karmakar A, Das S. and Goswami, P.P.: k-Enclosing Axis-Parallel Square,
International Conference on Computational Science and its Applications, Lecture Notes in Computer
Science 6784 (Part III), Springer, 84-93, 2011.
Alireza, Alaei, Nagabhushan, P. and Pal, Umapada: A New Text-line Alignment Approach
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Based on Piece-wise Painting Algorithm for Handwritten Documents, Proceedings of 11 International
Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR), 324-328, 2011.
Alireza, Alaei, Pal, Umapada, Nagabhushan, P. and Kimura F.: A Painting Based
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Technique for Skew Estimation of Scanned Documents, Proceedings of 11 International Conference
on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR), 299-303, 2011.
180
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Alireza, Alaei, Nagabhushan, P. and Pal, Umapada: A benchmark Kannada handwritten

document dataset and its segmentation, Proceedings of 11th International Conference on Document
Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR), 141-145, 2011.
Alireza, Alaei, Pal, Umapada and Nagabhushan, P.: A New Dataset of Persian Handwritten
Documents and its Segmentation Results, IEEE Proceedings of 7th Iranian Conference on Machine
Vision and Image Processing, 1-5, 2011.
Arya, D., Patnaik, T., Chaudhury, S., Jawahar, C.V., Chaudhuri, B.B.,
Ramakrishna, A.G., Bhagvati, C., Lehal, G.S.: Experiences of Integration and
Performance Testing of Multilingual OCR for Printed Indian Scripts, Proceedings of Multilingual Optical
Character Recognition (MOCR) Workshop-2011, Beijing, 67-81, 2011
Basu, Kinjal, Nangia, Radhika and Pal, Umapada: Recognition of Similar Shaped
Handwritten Characters Using Logistic Regression, Proceedings of 10th IAPR International Workshop
on Document Analysis Systems, 200-204, 2012.
Bhattacharya, A., Palit, S., Chatterjee, N. and Roy, G.: Blind assessment of image quality
employing fragile watermarking, Proceedings of Image and Signal Processing and Analysis (ISPA
2011), Dubrovnik, Croatia, INSPEC Accession Number: 12307440, 2011.
Bhowmik, Tapan K., Roy, Utpal and Parui, S.K.: Lexicon reduction technique for Bangla
handwritten word recognition, 10th IAPR International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems,
Queensland, Australia, 195-199, 2012.
Bolan, Su, Shijian, Lu, Pal, Umapada and Tan, Chew Lim: An Effective Staff Detection and
Removal Technique for Musical Documents, Proceedings of 10th IAPR International Workshop on
Document Analysis Systems, 160-164, 2012.
Chanda, S., Franke, K. and Pal, Umapada: Script Identification - A Questioned Document
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Examination Perspective, Proceedings of 11 International Conference on Document Analysis and
Recognition (ICDAR), 713-717, 2011.
Chanda, S., Pal, Umapada and Franke, K.: Clustering Document Fragments using Background
Color and Texture, Proceedings of Document Recognition and Retrieval (DRR), 1-4, 2012.
Chanda, S., Franke, K. and Pal, Umapada: Text Independent Writer Identification for Oriya
Script, Proceedings of 10th IAPR International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems, 369-373,
2012.
Chattopadhyay, T., Bhattacharya, U., Chaudhuri, B.B.: On the Enhancement and Binarization of
Mobile Captured Vehicle Identification Number for an Embedded Solution, Proceedings of 10th IAPR
International Workshop of Document Analysis Systems (DAS), IEEE Computer Society Press, Gold
Coast, Australia, 235-239, 2012.
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Chaudhuri, B.B.: Learning an Indian Abugida Script: Bangla, Proceedings of 15 International
Graphonomics Society Conference, Cancun, 22-25, 2011.
Chowdhury, S., Garain, U., and Chattopadhyay, T.: A Weighted Finite-State Transducer
(WFST)-based Language Model for Online Indic Script Handwriting Recognition, IEEE Proceedings of
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11 International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR), 599-602, 2011.
Dutta, Anjan, Llados, Josep and Pal, Umapada: Symbol Spotting in Line Drawings through
181
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Graph Paths Hashing, Proceedings of 11th International Conference on Document Analysis and
Garain, U., Paik, Jiaul H., Pal, T., Majumder, P., Doermann, D. and Oard, D.: Overview of the
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FIRE 2011 RISOT Task, Proceedings of 3 Workshop of the Forum for Information Retrieval
Evaluation (FIRE), 160-163, 2011.
Garain, U., Doermann, D. and Oard, D.: Maryland at FIRE 2011: Retrieval of OCR’d Bengali,
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Proceedings of 3 Workshop of the Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation (FIRE), 182-187 2011.
Ghosh, Kripabandhu, Majumder, P. and Parui, S.K.: Cluster-based relevance feedback: Legal
Track 2011, The Twentieth Text Retrieval Conference Proceedings, USA, 500(295), 2011.
Ghosh, S. and Chaudhuri, B.B.: Composite Script Identification and Orientation Detection for Indian
Text Images, Proceedings of International Conference on Document Analysis and Recog (ICDAR)
2011, Beijing, 294-298, 2011.
Ghoshal, Ranjit, Roy, Anandarup and Parui, S.K.: Recognition of Bangla text from scene
images through perspective correction, Proceedings of International Conference on Image Information
Processing, Shimla, 1-6, Online Version: DOI: 10.1109/ICIIP.2011.6108886, 2011.
Jayadevan, R., Kolhe, S.R., Patil, P.M. and Pal, Umapada: Database Development and
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Recognition of Handwritten Devanagari Legal Amount Words, Proceedings of 11 International
Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR), 304-308, 2011.
Mandal, Ranju, Roy, Partha P. and Pal, Umapada: Signature Segmentation from Machine
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Printed Documents using Conditional Random Field, Proceedings of 11 International Conference on
Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR), 1170-1174, 2011.
Mandal, Ranju, Roy, Partha P. and Pal, Umapada: Signature Segmentation from Machine
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Printed Documents using Contextual Information, 9 IAPR International Workshop on Graphics
Recognition (GREC), 126-129, 2011.
Mohiuddin, Sk., Bhattacharya, U. and Parui, S.K.: Unconstrained Bangla online handwriting
recognition based on MLP and SVM, Proceedings of 2011 Joint Workshop on Multilingual OCR and
Analytics for Noisy Unstructured Text Data, ACM Digital Library, Article No.16, 2011.
Mamata Devi, H., Keat, Th. and Chaudhuri, B.B.: Spelling correction in Manipuri Text,
Proceedings of National Conference on CTCS-2010, Narosa Publishing House, 9-17, 2011.
Paik, Jiaul H., Pal, Dipasree and Parui, S.K.: A novel corpus-based stemming algorithm using co-
occurrence statistics, Proceedings of SIGIR 2011, 863-872, 2011.
Pal, Srikanta, Alireza, Alaei, Pal, Umapada and Blumenstein, Michael: Off-line
Signature Identification Using Background and Foreground Information, Proceedings of International
Conference on Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications (DICTA-2011), 672-677, 2011.
Pal, Srikanta, Nguyen, V., Blumenstein, Michael and Pal, Umapada: Off-Line Bangla
Signature Verification, Proceedings of 10th IAPR International Workshop on Document Analysis
Systems, 282-286, 2012.
Pal, Umapada, Roy, Ramit Kr. and Kimura, F.: Handwritten Street Name Recognition for Indian
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Postal Automation, Proceedings of 11 International Conference on Document Analysis and
182
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Palaiahnakote, S., Bhowmick, Souvik, Bolan, Su., Tan, Chew Lim and Pal,
Umapada: A New Gradient based Character Segmentation Method for Video Text Recognition,
Proceedings of 11th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR), 126-
130, 2011.
Perumal, Krish and Chaudhuri, B.B.: Language Independent Sentence Extraction based Text
Summerization, Proceedings of ICON-2011, 213-218, 2011.
Roy Chowdhury, Aruni, Bhattacharya, U. and Parui, S.K.: Text detection of two major Indian
scripts in natural scene images, Proceedings of 4th International Workshop on Camera-Based
Document Analysis and Recognition (CBDAR 2011), Beijing, China, 73-78, 2011.
Sharma, Nabin, Pal, Umapada and Blumenstein, Michael: Recent Advances in Video Based
Document Processing: A Review, Proceedings of 10th IAPR International Workshop on Document
Analysis Systems, 63-68, 2012.
Sharma, Nabin, Palaiahnakote, S., Pal, Umapada, Blumenstein, Michael and Tan,
Chew Lim: A New Method for Arbitrarily-Oriented Text Detection in Video, Proceedings of 10th IAPR
International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems, 74-78, 2012.
Madalli, D.P. and Prasad, A.R.D.: Analytico synthetic approach to handling knowledge diversity,
Proceedings of the International UDC Seminar on Classification and Ontology: formal approaches and
access to knowledge, The Hague, Netherlands, Online Version: DOI:
http://seminar.udcc.org/2011/php/proceedings.php, ISBN: 978-3-89913-865-8.
Madalli, D.P., Dutta, B. and Maltese, V.: Exploiting the Diversity in Search using the Facet
Dimensions, Proceeding of 1st International Workshop on Eternal Systems, EternalS’11, in Budapest,
Hungary, Online Version: DOI: http://www.springer.com/computer/ai/book/978-3-642-28032-0, 2011.
Raghavan, K.S., Neelameghan, A. and Lalitha, S.K.: Co-creation and development of digital
library, Proceeding of Open source software and libraries, Baby Valsala et al (eds.), Cochin University
of Science & Technology, Kochi, 63-74, ISBN: 978-93-80095-20-2, 2011.
Krishnamurthy, M.: User Expectations in the Changing Digital Environment: Issues and Challenges,
Theme Paper: National Conference on Emerging Trends in User Expectations for Next Generation
Libraries, Dravidan University, Kuppam, M. Doraswamy and Ramesh Babu (eds.), 87-92, ISBN: 978-
81923386-0-6, 2012.
Krishnamurthy, M.: Role of Libraries in the Knowledge Society: Challenges and Recent Development,
57th All India Library Conference, St. Agnes Centre for Post Graduate Studies and Research,
Mangalore, Ramesh Babu et al (eds.), 538-546, ISBN: 81-85216-45-6, 2012.
Krishnamurthy, M.: Philosophical and Theoretical Perspectives of Five Laws of Libraries and its
Influence on the Library Profession: Issues and Challenges, International Seminar Commemorating
the 80th Anniversary of Ranganathan's Five Laws of Library Science, Korean Library Association,
Seoul, Korea, 229-236, 2011.
Krishnamurthy, M.: Information Security in the Digital Era: Issues and Challenges, National Seminar
on Information Security in the Digital Era, Society for Electronic and Security (SETS), Chennai,
Nageshwar Rao (ed.), 138-143, ISBN: 978-93-80017-29-7, 2011.
183
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Krishnamurthy, M.: Information Handling and the Role of Information Professionals in the Changing
Environment, National Conference on Collection Management in Changing Context: Problems and
Prospects, Kuvempu University College Librarians Association and Karnataka State College Librarians
Association, Shmoga, Karnataka, Kannappanavar and B.S. Biradar (eds.), 269-271, 2011.
Roopa, E. and Krishnamurthy,M.: Scholarly Communication through institutional repository: Issues

and Challenges, 57th All India Library conference, St. Agnes Centre for Post Graduate Studies and
Research, Mangalore, Ramesha et.al. (eds.), 189-196, ISBN: 81-85216-45-6, 2012.
Electronics & Communication Sciences Unit
Bandyopadhyay, O., Chanda, B. and Bhattacharya, B.B.: Entropy-Based Automatic

Segmentation of Bones in Digital X-ray Images, International Conference on Pattern Recognition and
Machine Intelligence (PReMI'11), Lecture Notes in Computer Science 6744, 122-129, 2011.
Dasgupta, Subhasis and Bagchi, Aditya: Controlled Access over Documents for Concepts Having
Multiple Parents in a Digital Library Ontology, Proceedings of 10th CISIM 2011, Springer, CCIS Series
245, 277-285, 2011.
Dhara, B.C. and Chanda, B.: A Fast Interactive Image Segmentation to Locate Multiple Similar-
colored Objects, NCVPRIPG-2011, Hubli, 25-28, 2011.
Dutta, D., Saha, S.K. and Chanda, B.: Photometric Attack Invariant Video Sequence Matching,
3rd International Conference on Electronics Computer Technology, Kanyakumari, 340-344, 2011.
Ghorai, M. and Chanda, B.: An exemplar based inpainting algorithm using Hierarchical texture and
structure measure, International Conference on Signal, Image and Video Processing, Patna, 93-97,
2012.
Ghosh, Saurav, Roy, Subhrajit, Das, Swagatam, Abraham, Ajith and Islam, Sk.
Minhazul: Peak-to-Average Power Ratio Reduction In OFDM Systems Using an Adaptive Differential
Evolution Algorithm, IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC), New Orleans, USA, 1941-
1949, 2011.
Ghosh, Pradipta, Zafar, Hamim, Das, Swagatam and Abraham, Ajith: Hierarchical
Dynamic Neighborhood Based Particle Swarm Optimization for Global Optimization, IEEE Congress
on Evolutionary Computation (CEC), New Orleans, USA, 757-764, 2011.
Islam, Sk. Minhazul, Ghosh, Saurav, Das, Swagatam, Abraham, Ajith and Roy,
Subhrajit: A Modified Discrete Differential Evolution based TDMA Scheduling Scheme for Many to
One Communications in Wireless Sensor Networks, IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation
(CEC), New Orleans, USA, 1950-1957, 2011.
Maity, Sayan, Sardar, Soumen, Das, Swagatam, Suganthan, P.N.: Constrained Real
Parameter Optimization with a Gradient Repair based Differential Evolution Algorithm, IEEE
Symposium on Differential Evolution, IEEE Symposium Series in Computational Intelligence, Paris,
France, 1-8, 2011.
Mandal, Ankush, Das, Aveek Kumar, Mukherjee, Prithwijit, Das, Swagatam and
Suganthan, P.N.: Modified Differential Evolution with Local Search Algorithm for Real World
Optimization, IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC), New Orleans, USA, 1565-1572,
2011.
184
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Mukherjee, Sanjoy and Bagchi, Aditya: Storage & Retrieval of Trusted Information: Rationale for
a Probabilistic Database approach, Proceedings International Conference on Advanced Computing,
Networking and Security (ADCONS 2011), Surathkal, 32-36, 2011.
Mukherjee, S. and Chanda, B.: A Robust Human Iris Recognition/Verification Using a Novel
Combination of Features, NCVPRIPG-2011, Hubli, 162-166, 2011.
Mukherjee, Amitava, Shukla, Bipasha Paul, Chanda, Bhabatosh, Pal, Nikhil R.,
Mukherjee, Dipti Prasad: Prediction of Meteorological Images based on Relaxation Labeling and
Artificial Neural Network from a given Sequence of Images, Proceedings of International Conference
on Computer Communication and Informatics (ICCCI - 2012), Coimbatore, 1-5, Online Version: DOI:
10.1109/ICCCI.2012.6158795, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICCCI.2012.6158795, 2012.
Nasir, Md., Mondal, A.K., Sengupta, S. and Das, Swagatam: An Improved Multiobjective
Evolutionary Algorithm based on Decomposition with Fuzzy Dominance, IEEE Congress on
Evolutionary Computation (CEC), New Orleans, USA, 688-696, 2011.
Pal, N.R.: Fuzzy Rule Based Approaches to Dimensionality reduction, Perception and Machine
Intelligence, Proceedings of PerMin 2012, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 7143, M.K. Kundu, S.
Mitra, D. Mazumdar and S.K. Pal (eds.), 23-27, 2012.
Rakesh, S., Kailash, A., Arora, A., Chanda, B. and Purkait, P.: Face Image Retrieval
Based on Probe Sketch Using SIFT Feature Descriptors, PerMIn 2012, 50-57, 2012.
Roy, Subhrajit, Islam, Sk. Minhazul, Das, Saurav, Das, Swagatam and Abraham,
Ajith: Autonomous Deployment and Localization of Sensor Nodes with An Improved Differential
Evolution Algorithm, Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO), Dublin, Ireland,
Online Version: DOI: 10.1145/20018358.2001990, 2011.
Roy, Subhrajit, Islam, Sk. Minhazul, Ghosh, Saurav, Das, Swagatam and
Suganthan, P.N.: A differential covariance matrix adaptation evolutionary algorithm for global
optimization, IEEE Symposium on Differential Evolution, IEEE Symposium Series in Computational
Intelligence, Paris, France, Online Version: DOI: 10.1109/SDE.2011.5952074, 2011.
Samanta, S., Purkait, P. and Chanda, B.: Indian Classical Dance Classification by Learning
Dance Pose Bases, IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision, Colorado, 265-270, 2012.
Sarkar, K. and Pal, N.R.: Is it rational to partition a data set using Kernel-clustering?, IEEE
International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (Fuzz-IEEE 2011), Taipei, Taiwan, 2600–2605, 2011.
Tarafdar, S. and Chanda, B.: Illumination model based color transfer, International Conference on
Signal, Image and Video Processing, Patna, 84-88, 2012.
Bakshi, A. and Ghosh, K.: Scaling properties of Mach bands and perceptual models, Proceedings of
First Indo-Japan Conference on Perception and Machine Intelligence (PerMIn 2012), Springer, Lecture
Notes in Computer Science 7143, 66-74, 2012.
Bhattacharya, A. and De, R.K.: A methodology for handling a new kind of outliers present in gene
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expression patterns, Proceedings of 4 International Conference on Pattern Recognition and Machine
Intelligence (PReMI’11), Moscow, Russia, 394-399, 2011.
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Bhattacharyya, M., Bandyopadhyay, S. and Maulik, U.: Finding bicliques in digraphs: Application
into viral-host protein interactome, Proceedings of International Conference on Pattern Recognition
and Machine Intelligence (PreMI'11), Springer, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 6744, Moscow,
Russia, 412-417, 2011.
Biswas, R. and Biswas, S.: Discrete circular mapping for computation of Zernike moments,
Proceedings of 5th International Conference on Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence (PReMI-
11), Lecture Notes in Computer Science 6744, Moscow, Russia, 86-91, 2011.
Chaudhury, M., Das, S. and Kundu, M.K.: Interactive content based image retrieval using ripplet
transform and fuzzy relevance feedback, Proceedings of Indo-Japan International Conference on
Perception and Machine Intelligence (PerMIn-12), Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 243-251, 2012.
Das, M., Murthy, C.A., Mukhopadhyay, S. and De, R.K.: A second-order learning algorithm for
computing optimal regulatory pathways, Proceedings of 1st Indo-Japan Conference on Perception and
Machine Intelligence, Kolkata, 227-234, 2012.
Das, S. and Kundu, M.K.: Ripplet based multimodality medical image fusion using pulse-coupled
neural network and modified spatial frequency, Proceedings of International Conference on Recent
Trends in Information Systems (ReTIS-11), IEEE, 229-234, 2011.
Das, S. and Kundu, M.K.: Fusion of multimodality medical images using combined activity level
measurement and contourlet transform, Proceedings of International Conference on Image Information
Processing, IEEE, 1-6, 2011.
Das, S. and Kundu, M.K.: Hybrid contourlet-DCT based robust image watermarking technique applied
to medical data management, Proceedings of 4th International Conference on Pattern recognition and
Machine Intelligence (PREMI 2011), Lecture Notes in Computer Science 6744, Springer-Verlag,
Berlin, 286-291, 2011.
De, R.K. and Ghosh, A.: Neuro-fuzzy methodology for selecting genes mediating lung cancer,
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Proceedings of 4 International Conference on Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence
(PReMI’11), Moscow, 388-393, 2011.
Ghosh, A. and De, R.K.: A fuzzy entropy based approach for development of gene prediction
networks (GPNs): Detecting altered dependency in carcinogenic state, Proceedings of ACM
Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Biomedicine (ACM-BCB 2011), Chicago,
USA, 320-324, 2011.
Gorai, A. and Ghosh, A.: Hue-preserving color image enhancement using particle swarm optimization,
Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Recent Advances in Intelligent Computational
Systems 2011, Trivandrum, 563-568, 2011.
Kundu, M.K., Chaudhury, M. and Banerjee, M.: Interactive image retrieval with wavelet features,
Proceedings of 4th International Conference on Pattern recognition and Machine Intelligence (PREMI
2011), Lecture Notes in Computer Science 6744, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 167-172, 2011.
Kundu, M.K and Maity, A.: Accurate localizations of reference points in a fingerprint image,
Proceedings of 4th International Conference on Pattern recognition and Machine Intelligence (PREMI
2011), ), Lecture Notes in Computer Science 6744, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 293-298, 2011.
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Maiti, S., Mandal, D.P. and Mitra, P.: Sentence ranking for document indexing, Proceedings of 4
International Conference on Pattern recognition & Machine Intelligence (PReMI’11), Moscow, 274-279,
2011.
186
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Maiti, S., Mandal, D.P. and Mitra, P.: Tackling content spamming with term weighting scheme,
Proceedings of 2011 Joint Workshop on Multilingual OCR and Analytics for Noisy Unstructured Text
Data (MOCR-AND’11), Beijing, 57-62, 2011.
Maji, P. and Paul, S.: Rough-fuzzy clustering for grouping functionally similar genes from microarray
data, Proceedings of 10th Asia Pacific Bioinformatics Conference (APBC2012), Australia, 307-320,
2012.
Maji, P. and Paul, S.: Rough-fuzzy c-means for clustering microarray gene expression data,
Proceedings of 1st Indo-Japan Conference on Perception and Machine Intelligence (PerMIn2012),
Springer, 203-210, 2012.
Maji, P. and Paul, S.: Microarray time-series data clustering using rough-fuzzy c-means algorithm,
Proceedings of 5th IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM2011),
Atlanta, USA, 269-272, 2011.
Mitra, S. and Nandy, J.: KDDClus: A simple method for multi-density clustering, Proceedings of
International Workshop on Soft Computing Applications and Knowledge Discovery, A. Averkin, D.
Ignatov, S. Mitra, J. Poelmans and V. Tarasov (eds.), University Higher School of Economics,
Moscow, 72-76, 2011.
Mondal, A., Ghosh, S. and Ghosh, A.: Distributed differential evolution algorithm for MAP estimation
of MRF model for detecting moving objects, Proceedings of International Conference on Image
Information Processing, Shimla, 126, 2011.
Mukhopadhyay, A., Maulik, U. and Bandyopadhyay, S.: Discovery of microRNA markers: An

SVM-based multiobjective feature selection approach, Proceedings of the Eighth Annual IEEE
Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (CIBCB 2011),
Paris, France, Online Version: DOI: 10.1109/CIBCB.2011.5948473, 2011.
Murthy, K.R.C. and Ghosh, A.: An efficient illumination invariant face recognition technique using two
dimensional linear discriminant analysis, 1st International Conference on Recent Advances on
Information Technology, Dhanbad, 69-74, 2012.
Nayak, L. and De, R.K.: Developmental trend derived from modules of Wnt signaling pathways,
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Proceedings of 4 International Conference on Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence
(PReMI’11), Moscow, 400-405, 2011.
Paul, S. and Maji, P.: Rough sets for selection of functionally diverse genes from microarray data,
Proceedings of Joint International Conference on Swarm Evolutionary and Memetic Computing
(SEMCCO2011) and Fuzzy and Neural Computing (FANCCO2011), India, 477-484, 2011.
Saha, C. and Ghosh, K.: Estimation of facial expression intensity from a sequence of binary face
images, Proceedings of International Conference on Image Information Processing (ICIIP 2011),
Himachal Pradesh, Online Version: DOI: 10.1109/ICIIP.2011.6108935, 2011.
Subudhi, B.N. and Ghosh, A.: Moving objects detection from video sequences using fuzzy edge
incorporated markov Random Field Modeling and local histogram matching, Proceedings of 4th
International Conference on Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence, Moscow, Russia, 173-179,
2011.
Uma Shankar, B. and Chakraborty, D.: Spatiotemporal approach for tracking using rough entropy and
frame subtraction, Proceedings of 4th international Conference on Pattern Recognition and Machine
Intelligence (PReMI’11), Moscow, Russia, 193–199, 2011.
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Meher, S.K., and Murthy,M.N.: Efficient Detection and Counting of Moving Vehicles with Region-
Level Analysis of Video Frames, Proceedings of the International Conference on Soft Computing for
Problem Solving (SocProS 2011), Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing 2012, Vol.-131/2012,
29-40, Online Version: DOI: 10.1007/978-81-322-0491-6-3, 2011.
Meher, S.K., and Patel, P.: Fuzzy Impulse Noise Detector for Efficient Image Restoration, IEEE
Conference on Recent Advances in Intelligent Computational Systems, Recent Advances in Intelligent
Computational Systems (RAICS 2011), Trivandrum, 701-705, 2011.
De, Soumen and Mandal, B.N.: Transmission of water waves through apertures in a pair of thin
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vertical barriers, 26 International Workshop on Water Waves and Floating Bodies (26 IWWW FB),
S.A. Mavarakes and I.K. Chatjigeorgion (eds.), Athens, Greece, 35-36, 2011.
Maity, H. and Mazumder, B.S.: Plane-wise conditional shear stress statistics over scour marks
generated in a laboratory flume, Proceedings of HYDRO-2011 on Hydraulics and Water
Resourses, Indian Society for Hydraulics (ISH), Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology
(SVNIT), Surat, 517-524, 2011.
Mazumder, B.S. and Sarkar, K.: Turbulent flow over 2-D forward facing dunes of two different shapes,
Proceedings of HYDRO-2011 on Hydraulics and Water Resourses, Indian Society for Hydraulics
(ISH), Pune, Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology (SVNIT), Surat, 812-819, 2011.
Gupta, R.: Nutritional adaptation in men at high altitude: A paradigm in human population biology,
Issues and Themes in Contemporary Anthropological Studies, S. Sengupta (ed.), Gyan Publishing,
New Delhi, 71-77, 2012.
Mukhopadhyay, B.: Hydel power projects in Sikkim: Issues reflecting anthropological impact,
Anthropological Impact Assessment of development Initiatives, A.K. Danda, K.K. Basa, K.K. Misra
(eds.), Indian National Confederation and Academy of Anthropologists (INCAA), Jhargram, 234-242,
2012.
Dash, Niladri Sekhar: Principles of Part-Of-Speech (POS) Tagging in Indian Language Corpora,
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Proceedings of 5 Language Technology Conference (LTC-2011): Human Language Technologies as
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a challenge for computer science and linguistics, Zygmunt Vetulani (ed.), Poznan, Poland, 101-105,
2011.
Dash, Niladri Sekhar, Dutta Chowdhury, P. and Sarkar, A.: Digital Pronunciation Dictionary for
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Bengali: A Tool of the Time, Proceedings of the 9 International Conference on Natural Language
Processing (ICON-2011), D.M. Sharma, R. Sangal and L. Sobha (eds.), Anna University, Chennai,
117-124, 2011.
Dash, Niladri Sekhar: Extratextual (Documentative) Annotation in Written Text Corpora, Proceedings
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of the 9 International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON-2011), D.M. Sharma, R.
Sangal and L. Sobha (eds.), Anna University, Chennai, 168-176, 2011.
Dash, Niladri Sekhar, Dutta Chowdhury, P. and De, Amrita: Rules for POS Tagging of the
Bengali Corpus, Proceedings of the 1st Asia Pacific Conference on Corpus Linguistics (APCLC),
University of Wellington, Auckland, New Zealand, 63-65, 2012.
Dash, Niladri Sekhar and Topdar, Baisakhi: Lexical Generativity of Bengali Prefixes: A Corpus
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Based Investigation, Proceedings of the 1 Asia Pacific Conference on Corpus Linguistics (APCLC),
University of Wellington, Auckland, New Zealand, 66-68, 2012.
Dash, Niladri Sekhar: Principles of Part-Of-Speech (POS) Tagging in Bengali Language Corpus,
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Proceedings of 2 National Conference on Emerging Trends in Educational Informatics (ETEI-2011),
National Institute of Technical Teachers’ Training and Research, Kolkata, 46-52, 2012.
Ghosh, A.: Ego-identity Status in Different Groups of Late adolescents, Identity, Multiculturalism and
Changing Societies, P. Singh, P. Bain, Chan-Hoong, Leong, G. Misra and Y. Ohtsubo (eds.), Progress
in Asian Social Psychology Series, McMilan Publishers, Vol.-8, 95-108, 2011.
Santosh, S. and Dutta Roy, D.: Cognitive Self Regulation behavior in Schizophrenia and its relation
with Social Functioning, Proceedings of International Conference on Behavioral, Cognitive and
Psychological Sciences, World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology, Paris, Vol.-7 (77),
2319-2324, 2011.
Ghosh, Tirthankar: Constraints of development in the rural areas of West Bengal, Proceedings of the
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UGC Sponsored National Level Conference, Sociology in the 21 century: The first decade,
Barrackpore Rastraguru Surendranath College and Sociological Association of West Bengal,
Barrackpore, ISBN: 978-81-921808-1-6, 83-92, 2011.
Jana, Rabindranath: Importance of weighted social networks in diffusion of agricultural innovations: An

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empirical study, Proceedings of the UGC Sponsored National Level Conference, Sociology in the 21
century: The first decade, Barrackpore Rastraguru Surendranath College and Sociological Association
of West Bengal, Barrackpore, ISBN: 978-81-921808-1-6, 93-101, 2011.
189
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Gijo, E.V.: Quality Improvement of automotive supplier process: Application of Six Sigma
methodology, Joint Statistical Meeting 2011 Programme Book, Miami, Florida, USA, 61, 2011.
John, Boby: Modelling of code review process yield using Bayesian belief networks: A case study,
Proceedings of International Conference on Software Engineering (CONSEG 2011), 121-127, 2011.
Biswas, Amit K.: Decision Support System in a Publishing Company, Conference Proceedings of
International Congress on Productivity, Quality, Reliability, Optimization and Modeling (ICPQROM
2011), Allied Publishers, New Delhi, Vol.-2, 815-822, 2011.
SQC & OR Unit, Delhi
Chakravorty, Rina, Gauri, Susanta Kumar and Chakraborty, Shankar: A Study on the Optimization of
Multiple Quality Characteristics in Taguchi’s Static Problem, Proceedings of the International Congress
on Productivity, Quality, Relibaility, Optimization and Modeling (ICPQROM2011), Theoretical Papers,
Vol.-I, 686-702, 2011.
SQC & OR Unit, Hyderabad
Subhani, S.M.: Statistical Techniques for Integrated Management Systems (ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and
OHSAS 18001), Proceedings of the International Congress on Productivity, Quality, Reliability,
Optimization and Modeling (ICPQROM 2011), Case Study and Review, Vol.-II, 906-918, 2011.
Bag, M., Gauri, S.K. and Chakraborty, S.: Statistical Feature-based Recognition of Control
Chart Patterns using Decision Trees: A Comparative Study, Proceedings of the XV Annual
International Conference of Society of Operations Management, Indian Institute of Management,
Kolkata, 213-220, 2011.
Chatterjee, M. and Chakraborty, A.K.: Superstructure of Multivariate Process Capability Indices for
Asymmetric Tolerances, Proceedings of the International Congress on Productivity, Quality, Reliability,
Optimization and Modeling (ICPQROM), Vol.-I, 635-647, 2011.
Mukhopadhyay, A.R., Ghosh, S.K. and Chaudhuri, D.P.: Quantification of performance in higher
education for necessary improvement, Proceedings of the International Congress on Productivity,
Quality, Reliability, Optimization and Modelling (ICPQROM), New Delhi, Vol-II, 898-905, 2011.
Sarkar, A. (SQC & OR Unit, Mumbai), Mukhopadhyay, A.R. and Ghosh, S.K.: Addressing
environmental concern through lean six sigma – a greener approach, Proceedings of the International
Conference on Sustainable Waste Management and Exhibition (IconSWM), Jadavpur University, 71-
76, 2011.
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Sarkar, Ashok, Mukhopadhyay, Arup R. (SQC & OR Unit, Kolkata) and Ghosh, Sadhan K.:
Addressing environmental concern through lean six sigma – a greener approach, Proceedings of the
International Conference on Sustainable Waste Management and Exhibition (IconSWM), Jadavpur
University, 71-76, 2011.
Library, Kolkata
Pal, Ashis Kumar: Building an Institutional repository: a case study, Proceedings of the National
Seminar on Information and Knowledge Dissemination: Present status and future Direction (IKD-
2011), 102-106, 2011.
Pal, Ashis Kumar: Challenging roles of information Professionals in the new information environment,
Proceedings of the National Seminar on Challenges in Library Management System (CLMS-2012),
109–114, 2012.
Pal, Jiban K. and Das, Prabir Kumar: Quantitative assessment of research contributions of the Indian
Statistical Institute: 1991-2010, Proceedings of the National Workshop on Using Different Metrics for
Assessing Research Productivity, S.M. Dhawan, N.K. Khatri, and A. Ratnakar (eds.), Matrics Based
Research Assessment and Evaluation, New Delhi, ISBN: 978-93-5067-501-4, 2012.
Raychaudhury, Arup: Pricing Options and Models of Academic E-books: An Analysis of Multi-Campus
Institute, National Seminar on Efficient Use of Electronic Resources: Present and Future, Sunil Kr.
Chatterjee and others (eds.), ISBN: 978-921808-9-2, 8-13, 2011.
Library, Tezpur
Gogoi, K., Borthakur, J. and Sharma, M.: Federated Search: An Information Retrieval Strategy
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for ScholarlyLiterature, 8 PLANNER (Building Participatory Library Services in Digital Era), Jagdish
Arora (editor-in-chief), Sikkim, 224-232, 2012.
Gogoi, K.: Modernization of Public Libraries in India with special reference to North East India,
National Seminar on Modernization of Public Libraries in India with Special Reference to North East
India, R.K. Barman (editor-in-chief), Guwahati, 21 (Abstract), 2011.
Albanese, A., Pal, S.K. and Petrosino, A.: A Rough Set Approach to Spatio-temporal Outlier
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Detection, Proceedings of 9 International Conference on Fuzzy Logic and Applications (WILFI11),
Anna Maria Fanelli, Witold Pedrycz and Alfredo Petrosino (eds.), Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence
(LNAI), Springer, 6857, Trani, Italy, 67-74, 2011.
Bakshi, A. and Ghosh, K.: Scaling properties of mach bands and perceptual models, Proceedings
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of 1 Indo-Japan Conference on Perception and Machine Intelligence (PerMIn'12), Kolkata, 66-74,
2012.
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Bhandari, D., Kundu, L. and Pal, S.K.: Optical parameter selection for image watermarking using
MOGA, Proceedings of 4th International Conference on Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence
(PReMI11), Moscow, Russia, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 6744, Springer Verlag, Heidelberg,
280-285, 2011.
Datta, A., Ghosh, S. and Ghosh, A.: Wrapper based Feature Selection in Hyperspectral Image
Data using Self-adaptive Differential Evolution, Proceedings of International Conference on Image
Information Processing, Shimla, India, 1-6, 2011.
Das, A. and Ghosh, K.: Enhancing face matching in a suitable binary environment, Proc. of Int. Conf.
on Image Information Processing (ICIIP 2011), Himachal Pradesh, India, Online version IEEE xplore,
DOI: 10.1109/ICIIP.2011.6108934, Print ISBN: 978-1-61284-859-4, 2011.
Das, A., Roy, A. and Ghosh, K.: Proposing a CNN based architecture of mid-level vision for feeding
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the WHERE and WHAT pathways in the brain, Proceedings of 2 International Conference on Swarm,
Evolutionary, and Memetic Computing (SEMCCO 2011), Visakhapatnam, India, Springer, Lecture
Notes in Computer Science 7076, 559-568, Online Version: DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-27172-4_66,
2011.
Ganivada, A. Ray, S.S. and Pal, S.K.: Fuzzy Rough Granular Self-Organizing Map, Proceedings of 6th
International Conference on Rough Set and Knowledge Technology (RSKT11), Lecture Notes in
Computer Science 6954, Banff, Canada, 659-668, 2011.
Kundu, M.K. and Maiti, A.: Accurate localizations of reference points in a fingerprint image,
Proceedings of 4th International Conference on Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence
(PReMI11), Moscow, Russia, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 6744, Springer Verlag, Heidelberg,
293-298, 2011.
Kundu, S., Murthy, C.A. and Pal, S.K.: A new centrality measure for influence maximization in social
networks, Proceedings of 4th International Conference on Pattern Recognition and Machine
Intelligence (PReMI11), Moscow, Russia, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 6744, Springer Verlag,
Heidelberg, 242-247, 2011.
Mandal, A., Ghosh, S. and Ghosh, A.: Neuro-genetic approach for detecting changes in
multitemporal remotely sensed images, Proceedings of 4th International Conference on Pattern
Recognition and Machine Intelligence (PReMI11), Moscow, Russia, Lecture Notes in Computer
Science 6744, Springer Verlag, Heidelberg, 318-323, 2011.
Mishra, N.S., Ghosh, S. and Ghosh, A.: Semi-supervised Fuzzy Clustering Algorithms for Change
Detection in Remote Sensing Images, 1st Indo-Japan Conference on Perception and Machine
intelligence (PerMIn), Kolkata, 269-276, 2012.
Pal, R., Mukhopadhyay, J. and Mitra, P.: Image retargeting through constrained growth of
important rectangular partitions, Proceedings of 4th International Conference on Pattern Recognition
and Machine Intelligence (PReMI11), Moscow, Russia, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 6744,
Springer Verlag, Heidelberg, 104-109, 2011.
Roy, M., Das, S., Ghosh, S. and Ghosh, A.: Semi-supervised Hopfield-Type Neural Network for
Change Detection in Remotely Sensed Images, 1st International Conference on Recent Advances on
Information Technology, Dhanbad, India, 2012.
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Papers Published in Books
Bapat, R.B.: Permanents in Probability Theory, International Encyclopedia of Statistical Science,

Miodrag Lovric (ed.), Springer, Part-16, 1058-1060, 2011.
Chakraborty, B, Sarkar, S. and Basu, Ayanendranath: Robustification of the MLE without loss
in efficiency, Modern Mathematical Tools and Techniques in Capturing Complexity, Leandro Pardo, N.
Balakrishnan and Maria Angeles Gil (eds.), In honour of Maria Luisa Memendez (Special Volume),
Springer Verlag, 423–436, 2011.
Computer and Communications Sciences Division
Bhowmick, P., Bhattacharya, B.B.: Digital Straightness, Circularity, and their Applications to Image
Analysis, R. Barneva and V. Brimkov (eds.), Digital Geometry Algorithms (Theoretical Foundations
and Applications to Computational Imaging), Springer, 55, 2012.
Chatterjee, P., Das, N.: On Load-Balanced Data Gathering Techniques for Lifetime Maximization
in Wireless Sensor Networks, Wireless Sensor Networks, Liam I. Farrugia (ed.), Nova Science
Publishers, Computer Science, Technology and Applications Series, New York, USA, 137-160, 2011.
Das N.: Pervasive Internet via Wireless Infrastructure Based Mesh Networks, Technologies and
Protocols for Future Internet Design: Reinventing the Web, IGI Global, Pennsylvania, USA, 274-288,
2012.
Dutta, Anjan, Llados, Josep and Pal, Umapada: A Bag-of-Paths based Serialized Subgraph
Matching for Symbol Spotting in Line Drawings, Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis, Lecture
Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), Jordi Vitrià, João M. Sanches and Mario Hernández (eds.), 620-
627, 2011.
Ghoshal, Ranjit, Roy, Anandarup, Bhowmik, T.K. and Parui, S.K.: Headline based text
extraction from outdoor images, Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence, S.O. Kuznetsov, D.P.
Mandal, M.K. Kundu and S.K. Pal (eds.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS 6744), Springer-
Verlag, 446-451, 2011.
Ghoshal, Ranjit, Roy, Anandarup, Bhowmik, T.K. and Parui, S.K.: Decision tree based
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recognition of Bangla text from outdoor scene images, Neural Information Processing, B.-L. Lu, L.
Zhang and J. Kowk (eds.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS-7064), Springer-Verlag, 538-
546, 2011.
Roy, Anandarup, Parui, S.K., Nandi, Debyani, Roy, Utpal: Color image segmentation using
a semi-wrapped Gaussian mixture model, Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence, S.O.
Kuznetsov, D.P. Mandal, M.K. Kundu and S.K. Pal (eds.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS-
6744), Springer-Verlag, 148-153, 2011.
Roy Chowdhury, Aruni, Bhattacharya, U. and Parui, S.K.: Text detection of two major Indian
scripts in natural scene images, Camera-Based Document Analysis and Recognition, M. Iwamura and
F. Shafait (eds.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS-7139), Springer-Verlag, 42-57, 2012.
Banerjee, M., Bandyopadhyay, S. and Pal, S.K.: A clustering approach to image retrieval using
range based query and Mahalanobis distance, Rough Sets and Intelligent Systems, Andrzej Skowron
and Zbigniew Suraj (eds.), Vol.-2, Springer, Berlin, 79-92, 2012.
Banka, H. and Mitra, S.: Feature selection, classification and rule generation using rough sets,
Rough Sets: Selected Methods and Applications in Management and Engineering, Advanced
Information and Knowledge Processing, Part-2, G. Peters, P. Lingras, D. Slezak and Y. Yao (eds.),
Springer Verlag, Berlin, 51-76, 2012.
Das, R. and Mitra, S.: Aggregation of correlation measures for the reverse engineering of gene
regulatory sub-networks, Perception and Machine Intelligence, Lecture Notes in Computer Science-
7143, M.K. Kundu, S. Mitra, D. Mazumdar and S.K. Pal (eds.), Springer Verlag, Berlin, 235-242, 2012.
Hariharan, D., Acharya, T. and Mitra, S.: Recognizing hand gestures of a dancer, Pattern
Recognition and Machine Intelligence, Lecture Notes in Computer Science-6744, S.O. Kuznetsov et
al.(eds.), Springer Verlag, Berlin, 186-192, 2011.
Maji, P. and Paul, S.: Rough set based feature selection: Criteria of max-dependency, max-relevance,
and max-significance, Rough Sets and Intelligent Systems, A. Skowron and Z. Suraj (eds), Springer,
393-418, 2012.
Mondal, K., Mukhopadhyay, A., Maulik, U., Bandyopadhyay, S. and Pasquier, N.:
MOSCFRA: A multi-objective genetic approach for simultaneous clustering and gene ranking,
Computational Intelligence Methods for Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, R. Rizzo and P. Lisboa (eds.),
Lecture Notes in Computer Science-6685, Springer, Berlin, 174-187, 2011.
Abbott, Dallas H., Mazumder, R. and Breger, Dee: Native iron in the Palaeoproterozoic
Chaibasa Formation: primary or secondary?, Palaeoproterozoic of India, Mazumder, R. and Saha, D.
(eds.), Geological Society, London, Special Publications, Vol.-365, 77-90,Online Version:
DOI:10.1144/SP365.5, 2012.
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Dutta, R., Ghosh, P. and Sengupta, D.: Estimation of shape changes of skull roof bones in
Benthosuchus sushkini, a temnospondyl amphibian from the Triassic of Russia, Numerical Method
and Models in Earth Science, P. Ghosh (ed.), New India Publishing Agency, New Delhi, 81-97, 2011.
Ghosh, P. and Sarkar, S.: Pedogenic and sedimentologic criteria for recognition of overbank sub-
environments in a Triassic anabranching river deposit, From river to rock record: The preservation of
fluvial sediments and their subsequent interpretation, S.K. Davidson, C.P. North, and S. Leleu (eds.),
SEPM Special Publication, Vol.- 97, 125-142, 2011.
Mazumder, R. and Saha, D.: Palaeoproterozoic of India: an introduction, Palaeoproterozoic of India, R.

Mazumder and D. Saha (eds.), Geological Society, Special Publications, London, Vol.-365, 1-3, Online
Version: DOI:10.1144/SP365.1, 2012.
Mazumder, R., van Loon, A.J., L. Mallik, L. Reddy, S.M., Arima, M. Altermann,
W., Eriksson, P.G. and De, S.: Mesoarchaean–Palaeoproterozoic stratigraphic record of the
Singhbhum crustal province, eastern India: a synthesis, Palaeoproterozoic of India, Mazumder, R. and
Saha, D. (eds.), Geological Society, Special Publications, London, Vol.-365, 31-49, Online Version:
DOI:10.1144/SP365.3, 2012.
Mazumder, R., Eriksson, P.G., De, S., Bumby, A.J. and Lenhardt, N.:
Palaeoproterozoic sedimentation on the Singhbhum Craton: global context and comparison with
Kaapvaal, Palaeoproterozoic of India, Mazumder, R. and Saha, D. (eds.) Geological Society, Special
Publications, London, Vol.-365, 51-76, Online Version: DOI:10.1144/SP365.4, 2012.
Saha, D. and Mazumder, R.: An overview of the Palaeoproterozoic geology of Peninsular India and
key stratigraphic and tectonic issues, Palaeoproterozoic of India, R. Mazumder and D. Saha (eds.),
Geological Society, Special Publications, London, Vol.-365, 5–29, 2012.
Saha, D. and Tripathy, V.: Palaeoproterozoic sedimentation in the Cuddapah Basin, South India and
regional tectonics: a review, R. Mazumder and D. Saha (eds.), Geological Society, Special
Publications, London, Vol.-365, 161–184, 2012.
Mukhopadhyay, Sabyasachi, Roy, Sisir and Bhattacharya, Sourabh: Bayesian Semiparametric

curve- fitting and clustering in SDSS Data, Data Analysis in Astronomy, B. Zavidovique, B. and G. Lo.
Bosco (ed.), World Scientific Publisher, 290-295, 2012.
Roy, Sisir and Llinas, Rodolfo: The Role of Noise in Brain Function, Science: Image in Action, B.
Zavidovique, B. and G. Lo. Bosco (ed.), World Scientific Publisher, 34-44, 2012.
Abraham, Ralph and Roy, Sisir: A Digital Solution to the Mind/Body Problem, Stepping beyond the
Newtonian Paradigm in Biology, Plamen L. Simeonov and et al. (eds.), Springer Verlag, 213-225,
2012.
Roy, Sisir: Quantum Entanglement and the Philosophy of Relations, Emerging aspects in Philosophy,
M. Kapoor, et al. (eds.), Readers Services, 115-130, 2011.
195
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Barua, T., Adak, D.K., Bharati, P.: An appraisal of health of the tribes in Assam, People of
Contemporary North-East India, Tiluttama Baruah (ed.), Pratisruti Publication, Guwahati, 49-58, 2011.
Bharati, S., Pal, M., Adak, D.K., Bharati, P.: Ideology of Son Preference in North-East India, People
of Contemporary North-East India, Tiluttama Baruah (ed.), Pratisruti Publication, Guwahati, 84-97,
2011.
Gautam, R.K., Adak, D.K., Bharati, P.: Role of climate in anthropometric variation, A study
among central Indian population, Subir Biswas (ed.), Concept Publishing Company Pvt. Ltd, New
Delhi, 143-153, 2012.
Shome, S., Pal, M., Adak, D.K., Bharati, P.: Adult Body Mass Index (BMI) in the North East States of
India, People of Contemporary North-East India, Tiluttama Baruah (ed.), Pratisruti Publication,
Guwahati, 9-20, 2011.
Bharati, Susmita (SRU), Pal, Manoranjan, Adak, Dipak and Bharati, Premananda (BAU): Ideology
of son preference in north east India, People of contemporary North East India, Tiluttoma Baruah
(ed.) Pratishruti Publication, Guwahati, 84-97, 2011.
Das, Samarjit: The Convergence Debate and Econometric Approaches: Evidence from India, Oxford
Handbook on Indian Economy, Chetan Ghate (eds.), Oxford University Press, Chapter-26, 766-784,
2011.
Ghosh, Chandana and Ghosh, A.: Industrialisation through SEZ: A Critique, Modern Indian
Economy: Essays in Honour of Professor Alak Ghosh, R.K. Sen (ed.), Deep and Deep Publication,
New Delhi, 113-127, 2011.
Jain, Neha, Pal, Manoranjan and Gupta, Raj Narayan: Women Empowerment in India, Gender
Deprivation and Empowerment of Women: An Indian Perspective – Concepts, Issues and Challenges,
U.K. De and B. Ghosh (eds.), Lap Lambert Academic Publishing & Co., Germany, 11-44, 2011.
Mitra, Manipushpak, Abergel, Frederic, Chakrabarti, Bikas, K. and Chakraborti,

Anirban: Two Agent Allocation Problems and the First Bent, Econophysics of Order-driven Market,
New Economic Window Series, Springer Italia, 271–275, 2011.
Mitra, Sandip, Sharma Biswas, Chaiti, Nath D.C., Pal, Manoranjan and Bhattacharya, B.: The Road
Map to Hospitalisation: Tackling Health Problem in Rural Meghalaya, Migration, Health and
Development, S. Lahiri, B. Paswan and K.C. Das (eds.), Rawat Publications, Jaipur, New Delhi, 409-
429, 2011.
Sarkar, A.: Monsoon and Economic Activity, The New Oxford Companion to Economics in India,
Kaushik Basu and Annemie Maertens (eds.), Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 484-487, 2012.
196
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Sarkar, A.: SEZs, The New Oxford Companion to Economics in India, Kaushik Basu and Annemie
Maertens (eds.), Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 651-654, 2012.
Sarkar, A.: Development, Displacement and Food Security: Land Acquisition in India, Oxford
Handbook of the Indian Economy, Chetan Ghate (ed.), Oxford University Press, 311–340, 2012.
Sharma Biswas, Chaiti: Women Household Empowerment in a Comparative Rural-urban Perspective:

A Case of West Bengal: Poverty Challenges in India, S.S.P. Sharma (ed.), Serial Publication, New
Delhi, 41-56, 2011.
Shome, Suparna (SRU), Pal, Manoranjan, Adak, Dipak and Bharati, Premananda (BAU): Adult
Body Mass Index (BMI) in the North East States of India, People of contemporary North East India,
Tiluttoma Baruah (ed.), Pratishruti Publication, Guwahati, 9-25, 2011.
Dasgupta, Probal: Reviziti sinjoron Sinha, Irmi Haupenthal, Instrui Dokumenti Organizi: Festlibro por la
80a naskigh-tago de Claude Gacond, Reinhard Haupenthal (ed.), Bad Bellingen, Edition Iltis, 115-124,
2011.
Dasgupta, Probal: Ramchandra Gandhi’s philosophical vision, Ramchandra Gandhi, I Am Thou:

Meditations on the Truth of India, Preface to Second Edition, Academy of Fine Arts and Literature,
New Delhi, 33-40, 2011.
Dasgupta, Probal: Agreement and non-finite verbs in Bangla: a biaxial approach, Annual Review of
South Asian Languages and Linguistics 2011, Rajendra Singh and Ghanshyam Sharma (eds.), De
Gruyter Mouton, Berlin/ Boston, 35-48, 2011.
Planning Unit
Ghate, Chetan: India's Growth Turnaround, The New Oxford Companion to Economics in India,
Kaushik Basu and Annemie Maertens (eds.), Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 316-322, 2012.
Rajaraman, Indira and Goyal, Rajan: Tax Effort of Indian States 2002-07, Essays in Memory of
Raja Chelliah, D.K. Srivastava and U. Sankar (eds.), Chapter-6, 110-124, 2012.
Ramaswami, Bharat: The Public Distribution System, The New Oxford Companion to Economics in
India, K. Basu and A. Maertens (eds.), Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 567-571, 2012.
Ramaswami, Bharat and Wadhwa, Wilima: Measure of Unemployment, The New Oxford Companion
to Economics in India, K. Basu and A. Maertens (eds.), Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 718-721,
2012.
Ramaswami, Bharat, Pray, C., Nagarajan, L., Huang, J. and Hu, R.: Impact of Bt Cotton:
The Potential Future Benefits from Biotechnology in China and India, Frontiers of Globalization:
Genetically Modified Food and Global Welfare, G. Moschini, C. Carter and I. Sheldon (eds.), Emerald
Books, 83-114. 2011.
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Publications
Datta, Pranati: Clustering of Nepali Female Migrants in West Bengal, Gender Deprivation and
Empowerment of Women: An Indian Perspective – Concepts, Issues and Challenges, U.K. De and B.
Ghosh (eds.), Lap Lambert Academic Publishing & Co., Germany, 267-276, 2011.
Sociogical Research Unit
Bharati, Susmita, Pal, Manoranjan (ERU), Adak, Dipak and Bharati, Premananda (BAU): Ideology
of son preference in north east India, People of contemporary North East India, Tiluttoma Baruah (ed.)
Pratishruti publication, Guwahati, 84-97, 2011.
Ghosh, Bholanath and De, U.K.: Empowerment of Rural Women in Backward Region of India: A
comparative study of Jharkhand, Tripura and Meghalaya, Gender Deprivation and Empowerment of
women: An Indian perspective, U.K. De and B.N. Ghosh (eds.), Lap Lambert Academic Publishing &
Co. KG, Dudweiler Landstr, 99, 66123, Saarbrucken, 111-146, 2011.
Ghosh, Bholanath and Bhattacharya, Asmita: Women in Information Communications Technology

(ICT): Opportunity and Constraint, Gender Deprivation and Empowerment of women: An Indian
perspective, U.K. De and B.N. Ghosh (eds.), Lap Lambert Academic Publishing GmbH & Co. KG,
Dudweiler Landstr, 99, 66123, Saarbrucken, 277- 289, 2011.
Ghosh, Bholanath: Gender budgeting, resource control and empowerment of women, Gender
Budgeting: State towards justice, A. Motin (ed.), Dasgupta and Co., Kolkata, 93-108, 2012.
Shome, Suparna, Pal, Manoranjan (ERU), Adak, Dipak and Bharati, Premananda (BAU): Adult
Body Mass Index (BMI) in the North East States of India, People of contemporary North East India,
Tiluttoma Baruah (ed.), Pratishruti publication, Guwahati, 9-25, 2011.
Neogy, S.K., Das, A.K., Sinha, S. and Gupta, A.: Optimization Models for a Class of Structured
Stochastic Games, Mathematics in Science and Technology: Mathematical Methods, Models and
Algorithms in Science and Technology, A.H. Siddiqi (ed.), R.C. Singh and P. Manchanda (co-eds.),
World Scientific, 448-470, 2011.
Neogy, S.K., Das, A.K., Sinha, S. and Gupta, A.: Optimization Models for a Class of Structured
Stochastic Games, Mathematics in Science and Technology: Mathematical Methods, Models and
Algorithms in Science and Technology, A.H. Siddiqi (ed.), R.C. Singh and P. Manchanda (co-eds.),
World Scientific, 448-470, 2011.
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Publications
Library, Kolkata
Raychaudhury, Arup: Library on Move: Handheld and Mobile Access to Information, Resource
Management in Academic Library: Systems and Tools, Dibyendu Paul (ed.), University of Calcutta,
Kolkata, 133-144, 2011.
Chakraborty, M.K.: On fuzzy sets and rough sets from the perspective of indiscernibility, Logic and its
Applications, Mohua Banerjee and Anil Seth (eds.), Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Springer,
Vol.-6521, 22-37, 2011.
Chakraborty, M.K.: Foreward, Revisiting Principia Mathematica after 100 years, Kumar Mitra and
Sanjukta Basu (eds.), Gangchil, Kolkata, 2011.
Ferone, A., Pal, S.K. and Petrosino, A.: The Role of Soft Computing in Image Analysis: Rough-
Fuzzy Approach, Handbook on Soft Computing for Video Surveillance, S.K. Pal, A. Petrosino and L.
Maddalena (eds.), Chapman & Hall/CRC, Boca Raton, Florida, 33-58, 2012.
Pal, R., Ghosh, A. and Pal, S.K.: Video Summarization and Significance of Content: A Review,
Handbook on Soft Computing for Video Surveillance, S.K. Pal, A. Petrosino and L. Maddalena (eds.),
Chapman & Hall/CRC, Boca Raton, Florida, 79-102, 2012.
Pal, S.K.: F-Granulation, Generalized Rough Entropy and Image Analysis, Science: Image in Action,
B. Zavidovique and G. Lo Bosco (eds.), World Scientific, Singapore, 45-63, 2012.
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7. VISITING SCIENTISTS
A number of distinguished scientists from India and abroad participated in the research, training and
other scientific activities of the Institute during the year. Some of them came to the Institute on
invitation and spent fairly long periods in the Institute to assist in the regular research and teaching
programmes, while others came for short periods and gave lectures and seminars. Most of them were
available for consultation by the faculty members of the Institute. Names of the visiting scientists are
given below.

Athreya, Krishna B., Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA, January 24-February 12, 2012.
Banerjee, Moulinath, University of Michigan, USA, August 11-December 31, 2011.
Banerjee, Pradipta, Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, July 11, 2011-March 31, 2012.
Balaji, V., Chennai Mathematical Institute, Chennai, October 21-23, 2011.
Biman Chakraborty, School of Mathematics, University of Birmingham, UK, August 01-21, 2011.
Biswas, Indranil, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bombay, December 21-26, 2011.
Biswas, Shibananda, Bengurion University of the Negev, Isreal, August 29-October 28, 2011.
Bose, Debashish, Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, May 02-21, 2011.
Brenner, Holger, University of Osnabruck, Germany, July 13-20, 2011.
Chaudhuri, Sanjay, Department of Statistics and Applied Probability, National University of Singpore,
June 09-24, 2011.
Das, Soumya, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, June 06-19, 2011.
Dcruz, Clare, Chennai Mathematical Institute, July 20-August 03, 2011.
Dhorajia, Alppesh Kumar, Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay,

November 15, 2011-March 30, 2012.
Folland, Gerald B., University of Washington, USA, December 25, 2011-January 09, 2012.
Ganguly, Satadal, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, April 01-December 31, 2011.
Kumar, Pratyoosh, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, August 08, 2011-March 31, 2012.
Lahiri, Soumendra, Texas A&M University, USA, June 29-July 23, 2011.
Maharana, Alok, McGill University, Canada, October 10-21, 2011 and January 16-March 31, 2012.
Majumder, Satyaki, Department of Mathematical Sciences, The University of Texas at Dallas, USA,
July 01, 2010 to June 30, 2011.
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Visiting Scientists
Mizera, Ivan, Department of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, University of Alberta, Canada,
December 31, 2011-January 31, 2012.
Onoda, Nobuharu, University of Fukui, Japan, December 18-29, 2011.
Pal, Goutam, RCC Institute of International Technology, Kolkata, August 09-September 09, 2011.
Raghavan, T.E.S., University of Illinois of Chicago, USA, July 17-24, 2011.
Pal, Koushik, University of California, Berkeley, June 26-July 09, 2011.
Singh, Rajesh, Pratap, Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, April 01-June 20, 2011.
Sinha, K.B., Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore, July 17-28, 2011.
Suparna, Sen, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, April 01, 2011-March 31, 2012.
Ali, Shakir, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, January 10-15, 2012.
Athreya, K.B., Iowa State University, USA, August 11-12, 2011.
Balaji, R., Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai, July 05-15, 2011.
Balachandran, Niranjan, Indian Institue of Technology, Mumbai, February 27-March 04, 2012.
Bhattacharjee, Samsiddhi, National Institute of Biomedical Genomics, Netaji Subhash Sanatorium (T.
B. Hospital), Kalyani, March 12-18, 2012.
Bhowmik, Prasenjit, Universite de Lyon, France, August 09-11, 2011.
Chakrabarty, Arijit, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, April 01-May 31, 2011.
Chakrabarty, Arijit, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, June 01, 2011-March 31, 2012.
Chatterjee, Kashinath, Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan, February 06-11, 2012.
Chakraborty, Parthasarathi, Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, August 29-September 04,

2011.
Chakraborty, Parthasarathi, Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, February 20-26, 2011.
Das, Sukanta, Indian Agricultural Statistical Research Institute, New Delhi, January 30-March 31,
2012.
Deshpande, J.V., Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, May 03-11, 2011.
Dey, Aloke, Indian National Science Academy, Senior Scientist, January 01, 2011-March 31, 2012.
Doosti, Hassan, Tarbiat Moallem University, Iran, March 07-31, 2012.
Karandikar, R.L., Chennai Mathematical Institute, Siruseri, May 11-18, 2011.
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Kattumannil, Sudheesh Kumar, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, December 01-14, 2011.
Kochar, S.C., Portland State University, USA, September 30-December 23, 2011.
Kole, Basudev, Indian Agricultural Statistical Research Institute, New Delhi, November 01, 2011-
March 31, 2012.
Kumar, Rajeev, Himachal Pradesh University, Shimla, December 26, 2011-Janaury 31, 2012.
Lone, Nisar Ahmad, Kashmir University, Srinagar, January 21-February 15, 2012.
Manjunath, B.G., University of Siegen, Germany, April 01-November 15, 2011.
Mishra, Amit Kumar, Central University of Bihar, Patna, January 30-February 05, 2012.
Prasad, Srijanani Anurag, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, September 01, 2011-March 31,
2012.
Shanmugasundaram, Sundar, Tuticorin, Chennai, June 08, 2011-March 31, 2012.
Sharma, Rajesh, Himachal Pradesh University, Shimla, December 26, 2011-March 31, 2012.
Sofi, M.A., Kashmir University, Srinagar, January 1-20, 2012.
Shorey, T.N., Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, July 01-22, 2011 and February 07-11, 2012.
Shridharan, Shrihari, Chennai Mathematical Institute, Siruseri, November 21-December 14, 2011.
Singh, Ajit Iqbal, Indian National Science Academy, Senior Scientist, June 01, 2011-March31, 2012.
Singh, Anupam, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune, June 13-20, 2011.
Singh, Sudhir Ng., Manipur University, Manipur, January 10-March 31, 2012.
Sivasubramanian, Krishnan, Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, July 05-13, and December 05-09,
2011.
Sundari, M., Chennai Mathematical Institute, Siruseri, April 08-December 31, 2011.
Shah, Hemangi Madhusudan, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, November 14-19, 2011.
Tilouine, Jacques, University of Paris-13, Paris, France, October 23-30, 2011.
Turner, Amanda, University of Lancaster, UK, January 02-14, 2012.
Zeitouni, Ofer, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, February 14-17, 2012.
Basu, Rabeya, Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research (IISER), Pune, January 25-30,
2012.
Bhati, Deepesh, Central University of Rajasthan, June 27-July 07, 2011.
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Visiting Scientists
Blondel, Oriane, Visiting Research Student, Chennai Mathematical Institute, Chennai, April 05-08,
2011.
Das, Bata Krishna, University of Lancaster, UK, August 17, 2011–January 31, 2012.
Gelfand, Alan E., Duke University, USA, January 18-19, 2012.
Gnacik, Michal, University of Lancaster, UK, September 15, 2011–January 31, 2012.
Gorai, Sushil, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, September 20, 2011-March 31, 2012.
Hanumanthu, Krishna, Chennai Mathematical Institute, Chennai, October 06-08, 2011.
Kulkarni, Manisha, Department of Science & Technology Project, November 01, 2011-March 31, 2012.
Kumar, Manish, Universitat Duisburg-Essen, Germany, March 26-30, 2012.
Leamer, Micah, Visiting Scientist, Chennai Mathematical Institute, Chennai, November 29-December
05, 2011.
Lohr, Wolfang, Universitat Duisburg-Essen, Germany, February 14-March 13, 2012.
Maldeghem, Hendrik Van, Ghent University, Belgium, January 05-13, 2012.
Margetts, Oliver, University of Lancaster, UK, August 09-September 19, 2011.
Muralidharan, Amrita, University of Exeter, UK, January 02-March 31, 2012.
Paul, Tanmoy, National Board for Higher Mathematics, Post-Doctoral Fellow, April 01, 2011- March
31, 2012.
Ramaseshan, Vittal, Vivekananda College, Chennai, November 11-December 31, 2011.
Ramesh, G., University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, May 12-20, 2011.
Sebastian, Ronnie, Visiting Scientist, Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, December 01-09,
2011.
Sethuraman, Bharath, California State University, Northridge, January 02-March 31, 2012.
Shorey, T.N., Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, June 27-31, 2011.
Stepanov, Alexei, St. Petersburg Electrotechnical University, Russia, November 01-04, 2011.
Vijayarajan, A.K., Kerala School of Mathematics, Kozhikode, May 10-18, 2011 and February 21-March
04, 2012.
Thakur, Ajay Singh, Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, September 30, 2011–March 31,
2012.
Thomas, Viji Z., Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, August 11-September 10, 2011.
Zeitouni, Ofer, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, February 01-04, 2012.
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Visiting Scientists

Biswas, Bhaskar, C.R. Rao Advanced Institute of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science,
Hyderabad, April 01, 2011-March 01, 2012.
Mandal, Abhijit, School of Health Sciences, University of Tampere, Finland, April 01–October 31,
2011.
Mukherjee, Diganta, United World School of Business, Kolkata, April 01-November 16, 2011.
Chakrabarty, Samarjit, Technische Universität München, Germany, August 01-31, 2011.
Ghosh, Arijit, Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (INRIA), France,

January 01, 2012-March 31, 2012.
Ghosh, Subir, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, December 08, 2011.
Kajihara, Seiji, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Iizuka, Japan, January 04, 2012.
Maheswari, Anil, Carleton University, Canada, July 03-07, 2011.
Pal, Shyamoshree, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, January 01, 2012-March 31, 2012.
Sarkar, Arnab, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, September 01, 2011-March 31, 2012.
Sen, Sandip, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, January 05, 2012-March 02, 2012.
Widmayer, Peter, ETH Zurich, February 13, 2012.
Xiang, Dong, Tsinghua University, China, November 29, 2011.
Documentation, Research and Training Centre
Amin, Saiful, Edutech India Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore, April 01-June 30, 2011 and September 01-November
30, 2011.
Asundi, A.Y., University of Bangalore, Bangalore, August 01-March 31, 2012.
Bhat, P.G., President and Managing Director, Pluma Knowledge Solutions (P) Ltd, December 01-31,
2011.
Chatterjee, Amitabha, Former Professor, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, March 01-31, 2012.
Chidambaram. K., Department of Computer Science, People's Education Society Institute of

Technology (PESIT), Bangalore, April 01-June 30, 2011.
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Visiting Scientists
Dutta Biswanath, Research Associate, Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science,
University of Trento, Italy, September 12-15, 2011.
Francis, Jayakanth, National Centre for Science Information, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore,
March 01-31, 2011.
Kavi, Mahesh, Department of Computer Science, People's Education Society Institute of Technology
(PESIT), Bangalore, April 01-June 30, 2011.
Panigrahi P.K., Department of Library and Information Science, Calcutta University, Kolkata, March
28-31, 2012.
Basu, Anirvan, INSEAD, France, February 01-March 02, 2012.
Chung, I-Fang, Institute of Biomedical Informatics, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan
(RoC), February 20-March 02, 2012.
Dutta, H.N., Swami Vivekanand Subharti University, Meerut, February 19-23, 2012.
Mandal, Tuhin Kumar, Senior Scientist, Radio and Atmospheric Sciences Division, National Physical
Laboratory, New Delhi, February 19-23, 2012.
Sharma, Sudhir Kumar, Radio and Atmospheric Sciences Division, National Physical Laboratory, New
Delhi, February 19-23, 2012.
Sarkar, S.K., Emiritus Scientist, Radio and Atmospheric Sciences Division, National Physical
Laboratory, New Delhi, February 19-23, 2012.
Manchez, Adriana, Computer Science Department, Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados

del Instituto Politécnico Nacional (CINVESTAV) IPN, Mexico, February 03-17, 2012.
Chakraborty, Basabi, Department of Software & Information Science, Iwate Prefectural University,
Japan, August 23-September 06, 2011.
Chakraborty, Chiranjib, Medical Biotechnology Division, School of Bio-Sciences and Technology, VIT
University, Vellore, December 01-31, 2011.
Peters, Georg, Department of Computer Sciences and Mathematics, Munich University of Applied
Sciences, Germany, December 26, 2011-January 10, 2012.
Chakraborty, Goutam, Department of Software & Information Science, Iwate Prefectural University,
Japan, December 27, 2011-January 11, 2012.
Zapotecas-Martínez, Saúl, Computer Science Department, Centro de Investigación y de Estudios

Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional (CINVESTAV) IPN, Mexico, February 03-21, 2012.
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Visiting Scientists
Atkinson, Peter, University of Southampton, UK, March 06-11, 2012.
Boerner, Wolfgang-Martin, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA, December 15, 2011.
Ghosh, Aurobrata, Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (INRIA),

Sophia Antipolis, France, April 19, 2011.
Krishnan, R.N, Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology, Trivendrum, March 05–08, 2012.
Majumdar, Atreyi, Department of Economics, University of Delhi, New Delhi, March 21, 2012.
Marschallinger, Robert, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften – Austrian Academy of

Sciences (ÖAW), Institute Geographic Information Science, Schillerstr, Austria, March 05-11, 2012.
Mukhopadhyay, Supratik, Department of Computer Science, Louisiana State Univeristy, USA, April 21,
2011.
Murthy, Sridhara K.R., National Institute for Advanced Studies (NIAS), Bangalore, March 06, 2012.
Pinnamaneni, Bhanu, MATRIX VISION, Paris Area, France, March 05–08, 2012.
Rao, Mukund, National GIS, Planning Commission, March 06, 2012.
Rao, N. Rama, Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology, Trivendrum, March 05–08, 2012.
Ray, Supratim, Center for Neuroscience, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, December 26, 2011.
Shevade, Shirish K., Indian Institue of Science, Bangalore, March 03, 2012.
Tsumoto, Shusaku, Department of Medical Informatics, Shimane University, Enya-cho, Lzumo, Japan,
March 05-10, 2012.

Kammerer, Christian F., Department of Vertebrate Paleontology, American Museum of Natural
History, New York, USA , April 01-08, 2011.
Carcaillet, Julien, Institute of Earth Sciences, Grenoble, France, December 26-29, 2011.
Huyghe, Pascale Institute of Earth Sciences, Grenoble, France, December 26-29, 2011.
Abrahami, Rachal Institute of Earth Sciences, Grenoble, France, December 26-29, 2011.
Ohta, Tohru, Department of Earth Sciences, School of Education, Wasedia University, Tokyo, Japan,
August 08, 2011.

Bhamidipati, Chandrasekher, Sao Paulo, Brazil, September 15–23, 2011.
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Visiting Scientists
Gill, Tepper, Howard University, USA, March 03–16, 2012.
Ghosh, Sibasish, Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, September 18–25, 2011.
Graf, Hans Walter, Ecole Polytechnique Federale, Laboratoire D’Hydraulique, Lausanne, Switzerland,
June 06–08, 2011.
Mukhopadhyay, Rajeshwar, Viswa Bharathi, Santineketan, September 01–02, 2011.
Noelle, Marie, Observatoire de Paris, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), France,
January 13–31, 2012.
Tran, Hien, North Carolina State University, USA, July 2011.
Fuwa, N.H., Waseda University, Japan, December 01, 2011-February 29, 2012.
Human Genetics Unit
Thalamuthu, Anbupalam, Genome Institute of Singapore, November 23-30, 2011.
Barari Mitra, Mahua, Department of Economics, Missouri State University, Springfield, MO 65897,
USA, April 01-30, 2011.
Bhattacharya, Debopam, Department of Economics, University of Oxford, Wellington Square, OX1

2JD, United Kingdom, August 18–September 18, 2011.
Chakraborty, Bikas K., Centre for Applied Mathematics & Computational Science, Saha Institute of
Nuclear Physics, Kolkara, August 01-March 31, 2011.
Chatterjee, Kalyan, Economics and Management Science, The Pennsylvania State University, USA,
July 08–August 08, 2011.
Ghosh, Arghya, School of Economics, Australian School of Business, University of New South Wales,
Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia, December 28, 2011–January 13, 2012.
Lustig, Nora, Department of Economics, Tulane University, 6823 St. Charles Avenue, 204 Tilton Hall,
New Orleans, LA 70118, USA, December 29, 2011–January 07, 2012.
Mallik, Rajlakshmi, NSHM Business School, Kolkata, June 20–July 16, 2011.
Mukherjee, Debasri, Department of Economics, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI 49009,

USA, September 01, 2011–January 31, 2012.
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Visiting Scientists
Sengupta, Sarbajit, Department of Economics, Visva Bharati University, Santiniketan, January 01-
March 31, 2012.
Economic Analysis Unit
Guha, Puja, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore, September 01-March 31, 2011.
Jha, Girish Nath, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India, May 01-31, 2011.
Sahay, Poonam, Department of English, Ranchi University, Jharkhand, July 01-31, 2011.
Planning Unit
Bakshi, Soham, University of Winnipeg, Canada, November 01-30, 2011.
Bishnu, Monishankar, Department of Economics, Iowa State University, USA, July 25, 2011–March
31, 2012.
Chakraborty, Shoibal, Princeton University, January 04-16, 2012.
Chattopadhyay, Siddhartha, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, January 19-21, 2012.
Chetry, K. Moon, Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), Delhi, November 21–
December 10, 2011.
Deb, Rahul, University of Toronto, Canada, July 25-August 11, 2011.
Demange, Gabrielle, Paris School of Economics, Paris, October 18–19, 2011.
Dinko, Dmitrov, University of Saarbrucken, Germany, July 27–August 06, 2011.
Dutta, Bhaskar, Warwick University, April 01, 2011-January 23, 2012.
Gunay, Hikmet, University of Monitoba, Canada, February 08-19, 2012.
Kubo, Kensuke, Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade Organization, joined in
October 2010 for 2 years.
Majumdar, Dipjyoti, Concordia University, Montreal, August 16-29, 2011.
Pachenko, Valaentyn, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, April 20–29, 2011.
Postl, Peter, University of Birmingham, UK, August 12-September 20, 2011.
Rajaraman, Indira, National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, Delhi, July 25–November 30, 2011
and February 01–December 31, 2012.
Roy, Jaideep, University of Birmingham, UK, August 20–September 15, 2011.
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Visiting Scientists
Roy, Souvik, Caen University, France, July 01, 22–September 30, 2011 and October 01, 2011-March
31, 2012.
Shankar, Sriram, University of Western Sydney, Sydney, December 19, 2011–January 31, 2012.
Sharma, Tridib, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM), Mexico, July 01, 2011–March 31,
2012.
Ulku, Levent, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM), Mexico, January 01 – April 30, 2012.
Wadhwa, Wilima, Society for Economic Research and Financial Analysis (SERFA), New Delhi, July 25–
November 30, 2011.
Basu, Jayanti, Department of Applied Psychology, University of Calcutta, March 07, 2012.
Banerjee, Pallavi, Department of Psychology, Bethune College, Kolkata, March 07, 2012.
Chakrabartty, S.N., Galgotias Business School, Noida, January 03, 2012.
Chatterjee, Susmita, Globsyn Business School, Kolkata, March 26, 2012.
Gonzalvo, Roman, Autonomous University, Madrid, Spain, November 01, 2011–January 31, 2012.
Sengupta, Atri, Calcutta Business School, Kolkata, February 29, 2012.
Subhadarshini, Soumya, Symbiosis College of Arts & Commerce, Pune, December 07, 2011.
Dixit, Anita, Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford, UK, April 01-June 01, 2011.
Raghavan, T.E.S., Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science, University of Illinois,
Chicago, USA, July 23-30, 2011.
Cesar, Jr., University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, October 11-12, 2011.
Lopes, Fabricio M., UTFPR-Federal University of Technology- Parana, Brazil, October 10-14, 2011.
Roberto, M., University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, October 11-12, 2011.
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8. HONOURS AND AWARDS

Dewan, Isha
Elected: Member, International Statistical Institute.
Pal, Arup
Elected: Fellow, Indian Academy of Sciences.
Roy, Rahul
Elected: Fellow, Indian Academy of Sciences.

Rao, T.S.S.R.K.
Awarded: Fellow, Fulbright-Nehru Senior Research Fellowship, The Fulbright Foundation, USA.

Bhattacharya, B.B.
Awarded: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Invitational Fellowship, Kyushu Institute
of Technology, Iizuka, Japan.

Chaudhuri, Bidyut B.
Awarded: Om Prakash Bhasin Award (Electronics and Information Technology), Science &
Technology, New Delhi.
Elected: Fellow, Third World Academy of Sciences.

Bandyopadhyay, S.
Elected: Fellow of Indian National Academy of Engineering, 2012
Awarded: Dr. Jagadish Chandra Bose National Science Award, Science Association of Bengal, 2011.
Maji, P.
Awarded: Indian National Science Academy (INSA) Medal (Young Scientists), INSA, 2011.
Mitra, S.
Elected: Fellow of the Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2012.

Sagar, B.S.D.
Awarded: Georges Matheron Award, 36th International Association for Mathematical Geosciences
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Honours and Awards
(IAMG) Conference, Salzburg, Austria.
Meher, S.K.
Elected: Senior Member of Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), USA, 2011.
Bandyopadhyay, S.
Awarded: Sharada Chandra Gold Medal (Best paper in Paleontology), Lucknow, 2011.
Patranabis Deb, S.
Awarded: National Geosciences Award-2010, Ministry of Mines, Govt. of India, February16, 2012.
Planning Unit
Afridi, Farzana
Awarded: Research Fellow, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn, Germany, 2011-2012.
Ghate Chetan.
Appointed: External Affiliate, Center for International Macroeconomic Studies (CIMS),
University of Surrey, UK.
Awarded: Rockefeller Foundation, Bellagio Center Residency.
Mukhopadhyay, A.
Nominated: Honorary Research Fellow, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn, Germany,
2012-2015
Acharya, U.H.
Selected: Member, Rajiv Gandhi National Quality Award Assessments, Southern Region, 2011.
Center for Soft Computing research: A National Facility
Chakraborty, D.
Awarded: Young Scientist Award (Information and Communication Science & Technology),
Indian Science Congress Association, 2011.
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9. EDITORIAL AND OTHER SCIENTIFIC ASSIGNMENTS
EDITORIAL ASSIGNMENTS
Bose, Arup (Associate Editor): Statistical Methodology; Indian Journal of Pure and Applied
Mathematics; Institute of Mathematical Statistics Collection, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, USA;
Statistics and Probability Letters.
Chaudhuri, P. (Editor): International Statistical Review.
Bandyopadhyay, Antar (Associate Editor): Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 2012-2014.
Bapat, R.B. (Guest Editor): Discrete Mathematics, Special Issue, Vol.-312 (9), 2012.
Bhatt, Abhay Gopal (Co-Editor): Sankhya.
Dewan, Isha (Associate Editor): Computational Statistics and Data Analysis; Journal of Indian
Statistical Association.
Roy, Rahul (Associate Editor): Journal of Applied Mathematics.
Singh, Ajit Iqbal (Associate Editor): Indian Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics; Indian National
Science Academy, Co-published with Springer; (Editor): Planned sequel to `Connected at infinity'.
Bhat, B.V. Rajarama (Member, Council of Editors): Resonance, Journal of Science Education.
Ramasubramanian, S. (Co-Editor): Sankhya, Series A, 73, 2011.
Sastry, N.S.N. (Editor): Proceedings of a Satellite Conference, ICM 2010; Buildings, Finite geometries
and Groups, 10, 2011; Springer Proceedings in Mathematics.
Adhikary, Arun Kumar (Associate Editor): Calcutta Statistical Association Bulletin.
Basu, Ayanendranath (Editor): Sankhya, Series B; (Associate Editor): Journal of Statistical Planning
and Inference.
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Editorial and other Assignments
Bose, Smarajit (Associate Editor): Sankhya, Series B.
Bhattacharya, B.B. (Editor): Journal of Electronic Testing, Theory and Applications.
Bhattacharya, Ujjwal (Guest Editor): Pattern Recognition Letter on Frontiers in Handwriting

Processing, Special Issue.
Chaudhuri, Bidyut B. (Guest Editor): Pattern Recognition Letter on Frontiers in Handwriting

Processing, Special Issue; (Associate Editor): International Journal of Document Analysis;
International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence; International Journal of
Computer Vision; Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers (IETE) Technical
Review; Electronic letters on Computer Vision & Image Analysis; CSI Journal of Computing.
Garain, Utpal (Associate Editor): International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition
(IJDAR), Springer.
Pal, Umapada (Associate Editor): Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Transactions on Asian
Language Information Processing, ACM; Electronic Journal on Computer Vision and Image Analysis,
CVC Press.
Pal, Nikhil R. (Associate Editor): Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Transactions
on Fuzzy Systems, IEEE, USA; (Associate Editor): IEEE Transactions Systems, Man and Cybernetics-
B, IEEE, USA; (Associate Editor): International Journal of Approximate Reasoning, Elsevier,
Netherlands; (Member, Advisory Committee): International Journal of Intelligent Computing in Medical
Sciences and Image Processing, TSI Press, USA; (Associate Editor): Fuzzy Information and
Engineering: An International Journal, Springer; (Member, Editorial Advisory Board): International
Journal of Neural Systems, World Scientific.
Das, Swagatam (Founding Co Editor-in-Chief): Swarm and Evolutionary Computing, Elsevier;

(Associate Editor): IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part–A.
Ghosh, A. (Associate Editor): Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) Computer Vision, 2012.
Mitra, S. (Associate Editor): IEEE/ACM Trans. On Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (IEEE
TCBB), 2010-2012; Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (WIRE
DMKD), 2008-2012; Neurocomputing; Journal of Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics (JCIB),
2005-2012.
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Sagar, B.S.D. (Editor): Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society: Multidisciplinary Review and
Research Journal, Hindawi Publishers, USA; (Guest Editor): IEEE Journal on Special Topics in Signal
Processing, 2012.
Meher, S.K. (Guest Editor): Applied Soft Computing, 2012.

Saha, Dilip (Editor): Indian Journal of Geology, Geological, Mining and Metallurgical Society of India,
Vol.-81(1-4), 2011.
Mandal, B.N. (Editor-in-Chief): OPSEARCH, Journal of the Operational Research Society of India,
Springer.
Biological and Anthropology Unit
Mukhopadhyay, B. (Consulting Editor): Collegium Antropologicum, 2011; Journal of Croatian

Anthropological Association; (Associate Editor): Journal of Indian Anthropological Society, Indian
Anthropological Society, 2011.
Economics Research Unit
Chakravarty, S.R. (Co-Editor): Economics E-Journal (Regular Assignment), Kiel Institute of the World
Economy, Germany; (Member, Advisory Board): ‘Economic Studies in Inequality, Social Exclusion and
Wellbeing’ (Book Series), Springer-Verlag, New York.
Dasgupta, Probal (Editor with Humphrey Tonkin): Language Problems and Language Planning,
John Benjamins, Vol.-35(1), Amsterdam, 2011; (Guest Editor): Alochonachakro, Bhashatatto Bishesh
Sankhya, Vol.-30, 2011.
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Dash, Niladri Sekhar (Editor-in-Chief): Journal of Advanced Linguistic Studies [ISSN: 2231-4075];
(Review Board Member): GLOSSA, Language Research Center, School of Social and Human
Sciences, Universidad del Turabo, Gurabo, Puerto Rico.
Planning Unit
Das, Satya P. (Editor): Indian Growth and Development Review.
Ramaswami, Bharat (Co-Editor): Indian Growth and Development Review, Journal of Agribusiness in
Developing and Emerging Economies.
Somanathan, E. (Associate Editor): Environment and Development Economics.
Pathak, Prasanta (Assistant Editor): Indian Journal of Regional Science, Vol.-1 & 2, Regional Science
Association, India, since 2004.
Dutta Roy, D. (Editor-in-Chief): Psyber News, Vol.-2(1-4), 2011 and Vol.-3(1), 2012.
Sociologoical Research Unit
Jana, Rabindranath (Statistical Editor): Indian Journal of Dermatology, Medknow Publications, 2012.
Ramachandran, V.K. (Editor): Review of Agrarian Studies, Foundation for Agrarian Studies and Tulika
Books, Delhi, Online Version: www.ras.org.in, 2011 onwards.
Chakraborty, A.K. (Editor): Proceedings of the international congress on Productivity, Quality,

Reliability, Optimization and Modeling (ICPQROM 2011), Vol.-I and II, Allied Publisher, 2011.
Library, Documentation and Information Science Division
Library, Kolkata
Pal, Jiban K. (Member, Board of Editors): International Journal of Library Science, CESER
Publications, ISSN:0975-7546, 2012; (Associate Editor): International Journal of Digital Library
Services, Academic Journals, ISSN:2250-1142, 2011; IASLIC Newsletter, Indian Association of
Special Libraries And Information Centres (IASLIC), ISSN:0018-845X, 2011.
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Library, Delhi
Khatri, N.K. (Member, Editorial Advisory Board): Gyankosh: The Journal of Library and Information
Management, Vol.-2(1-2), 2011.
Centre for Soft Computing Research: A National Facility
Chakraborty, M.K. (Guest Editor): Rough and Fuzzy Methods in Data Mining, International Journal of
Hybrid Intelligent Systems (Special Issue), Vol.-8, IOS Press, 2011; Transactions on Rough Sets, Vol.-
XIV, Springer, 2011.
Ghosh, A. (Associate Editor): IET-Computer Vision.
Pal S.K. (Associate Editor): Pattern Recognition Letters; International Journal of Pattern Recognition &
Artificial Intelligence; Applied Intelligence; Information Sciences; Fuzzy Sets and Systems;
Fundamenta Informaticae; (Editor-in-Chief): International Journal of Signal Processing; Image
Processing and Pattern Recognition; (Book Series Editor): Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and
Applications, IOS Press, Holland and Statistical Science and Interdisciplinary Research, World
Scientific; Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence (FAIA), IOS Press, Amsterdam and Statistical Science and
Interdisciplinary Research, World Scientific, Singapore; (Member, Advisory Editorial Board): IEEE
Transactions on Fuzzy Systems; International Journal of Approximate Reasoning; International
Journal of Computational Science & Engineering; (Advisor): International Journal of Image and
Graphics; (Guest Editor): IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics-A; Applied Soft
Computing; Fundamenta Informaticae; Intelligent Decision Technologies, IOS Press.
SCIENTIFIC ASSIGNMENTS/ACADEMIC VISITS ABROAD
Bose, Arup:
(1) Department of Economics, University of Cincinnati, USA, May 28--July 02, and June 16-17, 2011;
(2) Northwestern University, Chicago, USA, June 16-17, 2011;(3) Department of Statistics, University
of Minnesota, USA, November 09-15, 2011; (4)Department of Economics, University of Cincinnati,
USA, November 16--December 08, 2011.
Chaudhuri, P:
Institute of Statistical Science, Acdemia Sinica, Taiwan, December 16-21, 2011.
Datta, Mahuya:
University of Sheffield, UK, May 15-25, 2011, International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP),
Trieste, Italy, May 25-July 15, 2011.
Goswami, Debashis:
(1) Institute for Applied Mathematics (IAM), University of Bonn Germany, October, 2011; (2)
Department of Mathematics, Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven, Belgium, for 2 days in October 2011.
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Bandyopadhyay, Antar:
(1) Asia Pacefic Office of the International Civil Aviation, Bangkok, Thailand, August 01-05, 2011; (2)
Department of Statistics and Applied Probability, National University of Singapore, Singapore,
February 06-11, 2012; (3) Asia Pacefic Office of the International Civil Aviation, Bangkok, Thailand,
February 20-24, 2012.
Bapat, R.B.:
(1) Department of Statistics, University of Chicago and University of Illinois, Chicago, May 04-13,
2011; (2) University of Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany, August 22-26, 2011.
Bhatia, Rajendra:
(1) Alfred Renyi Institute, Budapest, Hungary, May 19-23, 2011; (2) Institute of Mathematics, Physics
and Mechanics, Slovenia May 24-June 01, 2011.
Bhatt, Abhay G.:

Department of Statistics and Probability, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA,
August 15, 2011-Until May 15, 2012.
Chakrabarty, Arijit:
Lyon, France, June 27-July 01, 2011.
Chatterjee, Arindam:
(1) University of California, North-California, USA, April 21-24, 2011; (2) Illinois University, Dekalb,
Illinois, April 15-May 06, 2011.
Dewan, Isha:
Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China, June 20-24, 2011.
Laishram, Shanta:
University of Helsinki, Finland, May 18-25, 2011.
Nandi, Swagata:
School of Management and Economics, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China, June 20-24,
2011.
Roy, Rahul:
(1) University of Waterloo, June 05-18, 2011; (2) Chiba University, September 05-12, 2011; (3)
Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain, September 19-December 09, 2011; (4) L'unité de
formation et de recherche (UFR) de Mathematiques et Informatique, Paris Descartes and Department
of Mathematics and Statistics, Lancaster University, March 19-Until April 06, 2012.
Sarkar, Anish:
(1) Mathematical Sciences, National University of Singapore, Singapore, May 01-21, 2011; (2) Vrije
University, Amsterdam, September 02-November 30, 2011; (3) L'unité de Formation et de Recherche
(UFR) de Mathematiques et Informatique, Paris Descartes, March 19-Until April 06, 2012.
Thakur, Maneesh:
(1) Mathematical Institute of WWU, Munster, May 09-27, 2011; (2) International Centre for Theoretical
Physics, Trieste, Italy, January 23-March 08, 2012.
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Athreya, Siva:
(1) Universitat-Duisburg, Essen, May 01-July 31, 2011; (2) National University of Singapore, August
01-December 31, 2011.
Bhat, B.V. Rajarama:

(1) Sabanci University, Istanbul, September 19–23, 2011; (2) Centre for Mathematic Sciences,
Technion, Israel, December 05–09, 2011; (3) International Centre for Mathematical Sciences (ICMS),
Edinburgh, UK, January 16–19, 2012.
Ramasubramanian, S.:
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel, September 18--25, 2011.
Rao, T.S.S.R.K.:
(1) Department of Mathematics, University of Bologna, Italy, June 2011; (2) Southern-Illinois
University, Edwardsville, USA, September 05-Until April 05, 2012; (3) Department of Mathematics,
University of Memphis, October 2011 and February 2012; (4) Department of Mathematics, U S Naval
Academy, November, 2011; (5) Department of Statistics, University of Maryland, USA, November,
2011; (6) Department of Mathematics, Texas A & M University, USA, March, 2012.
Sastry, N.S.N.:
(1) University of Birmingham, UK, June 11–18, 2011; (2) University of Augusburg, Germany, June 19-
25, 2011; (3) University of Ghent, Belgium, February 06–10, 2012; (4) University of Ghent, Belgium,
February 11–21, 2012.
Sreekantan, Ramesh:
(1) Centre de recherché mathematiques, Universite de Montreal, Canada, May 15–July 15, 2011; (2)
Polish Academy of Sciences Conference Centrer in Bedlewo, Poland, August 15–19, 2011; (3) Max
Planck Institute for Mathematics, Bonn, Germany, January 14–29, 2012.
Sury, B.:
(1) Steklov Institute for Mathematics, St. Petersburg, Russia, May 01-31, 2011; (2) Steklov Institute
Seminar, St. Petersburg, May 21, 2011; (3) St. Petersburg Mathematical Society, May 24, 2011; (4)
St. Petersburg State University, May 26, 2011.

Pal Choudhury, Pabitra:
(1) George Washington University, Washington DC, USA, March 23, 2012; (2) John Hopkins
University, March 29, 2012.
Dewanji, Anup:
R Samuel McLaughlin Centre for Population Risk Assessment, Institute of Population Health,
University of Ottawa, Canada, May-June 2011.
Basu, Ayanendranath:
(1) Limassol, Cyprus, May 26-29, 2011; (2) Complutense Universidad, Madrid, Spain, November,
2011; (3) Chinese University, Hong Kong, December 28-31, 2011; (4) The Institute of Statistical
Mathematics, Tokyo, Japan, February 02-03, 2012.
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Bose, Smarajit:
(1) Waters Edge Colombo, Sri Lanka, December, 28-30, 2011; (2) Department of Software and
Information Science, Iwate Prefectural University, Morioka, Japan, January 30-31, 2012; (3) The
Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Tokyo, Japan, February 02-03, 2012.
Pal, Amita:
(1) The Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Tokyo, Japan, February 02-03, 2012; (2) Iwate Prefectural
University, Morioka, Japan, January 30-31, 2012.
Saharay, Rita:
Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla, MO, USA, April 01-May 31, 2011.
Mitra, Sandip:
External Research Associate (Honorary), Centre for Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy
(CAGE), Department of Economics, University of Warwick, UK, Since January 17, 2012 until
December, 2014.
Banerjee, A.:
DATE (Design Automation and Test in Europe) Conference, Dresden, Germany, March 11-18, 2012.
Bhattacharya, B.B.:
(1) Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia, July 01-04, 2011; (2) Kyushu Institute of
Technology, Iizuka, Japan, September 26-November 25, 2011.
Das, S.:
School of Computer Science, Fudan University, Shanghai, China, May 26-June 09, 2011.
Sur-Kolay, Susmita:
(1) IEEE Symposium, Tuusula, Finland, May 23-25, 2011; (2) European TEst Workshop, Trondheim,
Norway, May 26-27, 2011; (3) University of Auckland, New Zealand, July 07-10, 2011; (4) National
Cheng Kung University, Tainan City, Taiwan, China, September 08, 2011; (5) Asis-Pacific Design
Automation Conference in Taipei, China, September 09, 2011; (6) National Taiwan University, Taipei,
China, September 10, 2011.
Bhattacharya, Ujjwal:
(1) 11th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, Beijing, China, September
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18-21, 2011; (2) Beijing, China, September 17, 2011; (3) 4 International Workshop on Camera-Based
Document Analysis and Recognition (CBDAR 2011), Beijing, China, September 22, 2011; (4)
Information Technology Lab, Fujitsu R&D Center Co. Ltd., Beijing, China, September 23, 2011;
Chaudhuri, Bidyut B.:

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(1)11 International conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, Beijing, China, September
18-21, 2011; (2) Beijing, China, September 17, 2011; (3) International Conference of Document
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Analysis and Recognition at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, September 16-23, 2011.
Garain, Utpal:
University of Maryland, College Park, USA, July 21, 2011-January 03, 2012.
Pal, Umapada:
th
(1) Graduate School of Engineering, Mie University, August 29-September 17, 2011; (2) 11
International conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, Beijing, Chaina, September 18-22,
2011; (3) Science, Environment, Engineering and Technology Group, Griffith University, Gold Coast
th
Campus, Australia, March 15-April 13, 2011; (4) 11 IAPR International Workshop on Document
Analysis and Systems, Gold Coast, Australia, March 27-29, 2011; (5) Committee Member for the
IAPR Young Investigator Award, 2011; (8) Chair (Best Student Paper) award committee of 11th
International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, 2012.
Krishnamurth, M.:
Korean Library Association, Seoul, October 17-22, 2011.
Madalli, Devika P:
(1) European Commission (Living Knowledge Meeting), Budapest, Hungary, May 02-07, 201; (2)
National Science Foundation (NSF), Colombo, Sri Lanka, July 27–30, 2011; (3) European
Commission (Living Knowledge Meeting), Barcelona, Spain, and Trento, Italy, September 15-25,
2011; (4) Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Rome (Living Knowledge
Meeting), November 12-25, 2011; (5) University of Southampton (Living Knowledge Meeting), UK,
March 26-31, 2012.
Prasad, A.R.D.:
(1) National Science Foundation (NSF), Colombo, Sri Lanka, July 27- 30, 2011; (2) European
Commission (Living Knowledge Meeting), Barcelona, Spain and Trento, Italy, September 15-25, 2011;
(3) Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Rome (Living Knowledge
Meeting), 07-11, 2011.
Raghavan, K.S.:
University of Danang, Vietnam, September 12-19, 2011.
Rao, Ravichandra I.K.:

Istanbul Bilgi Universitesi, Istanbul, Turkey, September 19-24, 2011.
Das, Swagatam:
(1) Halle aux Farines, Paris, France, April 11-15, 2011; (2) IEEE Congress on Evolutionary
Computation (CEC), New Orleans, USA, June 05-08, 2011.
Mukherjee, Dipti Prasad:

(1) Department of Advanced Technologies, Alcorn State University, Mississippi, USA, April 14-June
11, 2011; (2) Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Virginia,
Charlottesville, USA, May 16-18, 2011; (3) Department of Computer Science, University of Nebraska
Omaha, USA, May 20-22, 2011.
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Pal, Nikhil Ranjan:
(1) University of Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany, September 12-14, 2011; (2) IEEE
International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (Fuzz-IEEE 2011), Taipei, June 27-30, 2011; (3)
Department of Automatica y Computacion, Universidad Publica de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain, July
25-31, 2011; (4) University of Granada, Spain, February 14–18, 2012.
Bandyopadhyay, S.:
(1) Max Planck Institute For Informatics, Saarbrucken, Germany, April 05-May 31, 2011; (2) I3S
Laboratory, University of Nice, Sophia-Antipolis, France, May 09-11, 2011; (3) Department of
Computer Science, University of Genoa, Italy, May 12-13, 2011; (4) Computer Vision Center,
Autonomous University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, May 18-20, 2011; (5) Bioquant, University of
Heideiberg, Germany, June 01-29, 2011.
Kundu, M.K.:
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(1) 4 International Conference on Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence (PReMI-11), Higher
School of Economics, University of Moscow, Russia, June 26-30, 2011.
Mitra, S.:
(1) 4th International Conference on Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence (PReMI'11),
Moscow, Russia, June 25-30, 2011.
Murthy, C.A.:
th
(1) 13 International Conference on Rough Sets, Fuzzy Sets and Granular Computing, University of
th
Moscow, Russia, June 26, 2011; (2) 4 International Conference on Pattern Recognition and Machine
Intelligence (PReMI-11), University of Moscow, Russia, June 27-July 01, 2011.
Sagar, B.S.D.:
(1) ESIEE, Universiti Paris-EST, France, August 31-September 03, 2011; (2) University of Salzburg,
Salzburg, Austria, September 04–11, 2011.

Patranabis, D.S.:
(1) 28th International Association of Sedimentologists (IAS) meeting of Sedimentology, Zaragoza,
th
Spain, July 05–08, 2011; (2) 14 Bathurst meeting of Carbonate Sedimentologists, Bristol, UK, July
12-14, 2011.
Das, P.K.:
University of Leon, Leon, Spain, September 04–09, 2011.
Mazumder, B.S.:
(1) Environmental Fluid Mechanics Laboratory, Stanford University, August 08-22, 2011; (2)
Department of Civil Engineering, San Francisco State University, USA, August 18, 2011; (3) Illinois
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State Water Survey and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA, August 23-27, 2011; (4)
Department of Geography, King’s College London, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University
College, London, and Isaac Newton Institute of Mathematical Science, Cambridge University, UK,
October 16-22, 2011.
Pal, S.:
(1) University of Bonn, Germany, Since September 07, 2010–September 06, 2011; (2) CERN,
Geneva, Switzerland, June 14-18, 2011.
Roy, P.:
Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Perugia, Italy, October 12–November 14, 2011.
Roy, S.:
(1) Department of Mathematics, University of Paris VII, Paris, April 08–15, 2011; (2) Data Analysis in
Astronomic Image in Action, Erice, Italy, April 16–22, 2011; (3) Ecole des Hautes en Sciences
Sociales, Centre de Mathematiques, Paris, April 23–26, 2011; (4) Mundon Observatory, Paris, July
22–28, 2011; (5) International Conference on “Noise in Biological Systems”, Sigtuna, Sweden, July
29–31, 2011; (6) Marine Biology Lab., Woodshole, Massechussets, USA, July 31–August 06, 2011;
(7) International Workshop on Matter-Antimatter Cosmological, San Marino, Italy, September 02–05,
2011; (8) International Workshop on “Frontiers of Geometry and Beyond”, Department of Mathematics,
University of Paris VII, March 15-22, 2012.
Human Genetics Unit
Ghosh, S.:
(1) European Mathematical Genetics Meeting, UK, April 11-12, 2011; (2) Institut national de la santé et
de la recherche médicale (INSERM) laboratories, France, July 06-12, 2011; (3) World Congress on
Psychiatric Genetics, USA, September 10-14, 2011; (4) International Genetic Epidemiology Society
Meeting, Germany, September 18-20, 2011; (5) International Congress of Human Genetics, Canada,
October 11-15, 2011.
Chakravarty, S.R.:
External Advisor, World Bank, Washington DC, USA.
Das, Samarjit:
International Statistics Conference, Colombo, Sri Lanka, December 26-30, 2011.
Majumder, Amita:
Department of Economics, Monash University, Australia, July 09-August 05, 2011.
Mitra, Manipushpak:
(1) Department of Economics, University of New South Wales, Australia, November 14–December 01,
2011; (2) Department of Economics, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, January 10-20, 2012.
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Mitra, Sandip:
Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST), Hong Kong, December 12-17, 2011.
Sarkar, Abhirup:
(1) International Statistics Conference, Colombo, Sri Lanka, December 26-30, 2011; (2) Queen
Elizabeth II Conference Centre in London, UK & Finance Department, University of Nottingham, UK,
March 12-26, 2012.
Dasgupta, Probal:
(1) World Esperanto Association Board Meeting, Rotterdam, Netherlands, April 15-17, 2011; (2) 96th
World Esperanto Congress, Copenhagen, Denmark July 24-30, 2011; (3) Seminar on European
Citizenship and Language, Italian Esperanto Federation’s Grundtvig, Turin, Italy, August 21-26, 2011;
(4) Seminar on Esperanto and Interlinguistics, La Chaux de Fonds Public Library, Swiss Esperanto
Society’s La Chaux de Fonds, Switzerland, August 27, 2011.
Das, Niladri Sekhar:

(1) Paper Reviewer, Himalayan Linguistics Journal, published from Dept. of Linguistics, University of
California, Santa Barbara, USA, April-June, 2011; (2) Programme Committee Member, LTC 2011: 5th
Language and Technology Conference: Human Language Technologies as a Challenge for Computer
Science and Linguistics, Poznan, Poland. November 25-27, 2011; (3) Paper Reviewer,5th
International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP 2011), Shangri-La Hotel,
Chiang Mai, Thailand, November, 08-13, 2011; (4) Advisory Committee Member, Asia Pacific Corpus
Linguistics Conference, University of Auckland, New Zeeland, February 15-19, 2012.
Planning Unit
Afridi, Farzama:
University of New South Wales, November 2011.
Ghate, Chetan:
(1) University of Western Australia, Perth June 06–10, 2011; (2) University of Western Australia, Perth
November 21–December 02, 2011; (3) Australian National University (ANU), Arndt-Cordon Division of
Economics, December 2012.
Mishra, Debasis:
(1) Management University, June 02–17, 2011; (2) Korea University, Singapore Asian Econometric
Society Meeting, Seoul, Korea, August 09-13, 2011.
Ramaswami, Bharat:
(1) University of Western Australia, June 06–10, 2011; (2) University of New South Wales, Sydney,
Australia, September 15-16, 2011.
Rajaraman, Indira:
(1) IGIER-Bocconi University, Milan, 12-13 December 2011; (2) Australian National University,
Canberra, 19 September 2011.
Ray, Tridip:
University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, July 30–August 07, 2011.
Roy Chowdhury, Prabal:

University of Sydney, September 30–December 01, 2011.
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Sen, Arunava:
(1) Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain, May 22-June 12, 2011; (2) Concordia University,
Montreal Canada, June 14-26, 2011; (3) Singapore Management University, Singapore. August 09–
22, 2011; (4) Shanghai University of Finance & Economics, China, November 21-25, 2011; (5)
Singapore Management University, Singapore, March 26–April 02, 2012.
Somanathan, E.:
(1) Princeton University, USA, Since September, 2010–August, 2011; (2) Climate Policy Outreach
Modellers Workshop, Berlin, Germany November 11, 2011; (3) IPCC WG III Second Lead Authors
Meeting, Wellington, New Zealand, March 16-23, 2012.
Basak, R.:
(1) Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest, Hungary, October 03-16, 2011; (2) International Conference
on Education and Educational Psychology, Istanbul, Turkey, October 19-22, 2011.
Dutta Roy, D.:

(1) The Operational Research Society of Nepal, February 01–02, 2012; (2) Tribhuban University,
February 03–05, 2012.
Ghosh, A.:
Koc University, Istanbul, Turkey, June 30–July 03, 2011.
Santosh, S.:
World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology, France, June 28-30, 2011.
Ramachandran, V.K.:
(1) Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, Japan, Since January 15-April 15, and September 23-25, 2011; (2)
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Conference on Marxism in the 21 Century, London, UK, November 23-25, 2011.
Swaminathan, Madhura:
(1) Meeting of the Society for the Study of Economic Inequality, Catania, Italy, July 17-19, 2011; (2)
First World Food Security Forum, Rabat, Morocco, March 07-09, 2012.
Perumallu, P.K.:
(1) Conducted ISO/TS Audit, M/s Hitachi, Japan, July 2011; (2) Conducted ISO/TS Audit, M/s Hitachi,
Thailand, July 2011; (3) Conducted ISO/TS Audit, M/s. N X P Seremban, Malaysia, July 2011; (4)
Conducted ISO/TS Audit, M/s. Samara Cables, Russia, August 2011; (5) Conducted ISO/TS Audit,
M/s N X P Cabuyao, Phillippines, November 2011.
Gijo, E.V.:
Georgia Institute of Technology, Altanta, Georgia, USA, August 2011.
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Chakravorty, Rina:
ISO/TC169 Technical Committee meetings (on behalf of Bureau of Indian Standards), Berlin,
Germany, July 18-22, 2011.
Anis, M.Z.:
Department of Mathematics & Statistics, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, July 05-08, 2011.
Pradhan, B.:
International Workshop on “Patient Reported Outcomes and Quality of Life”, Laboratoire de Statistique
Théorique et Appliquée, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris July 04-06, 2011.
Center for Soft Computing research: A National Facility
Pal, S.K.:
(1) Center for Scientific Culture, Erice, Sicily, Italy, April 11-21, 2011; (2) University of Naples,
Parthenope, Naples, April 11-21, 2011; (3) University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA, May 23-
June 03, 2011; (4) San Francisco State University, San Francisco, USA, May 23-June 03, 2011; (5)
Sharif University, Tehran, Iran, June 14-17, 2011; (6) National Research University, Higher School of
Economics, Moscow, Russia, June 25–July 03, 2011; (7) University of Naples, Italy, November 13-27,
2011; (8) National Research Council (CNR), Pozzuoli, Naples, November 13-27, 2011; (9) University
of Padova, Italy, November 13-27, 2011; (10) TWAS meeting, Trieste, Italy, November 21-23, 2011.
Chakraborty, M.K.:
(1) Istanbul University, Turkey, April 09-10, 2012; (2) University of Catania, Italy, September 09-17,
2011; (3) University of Milano-Bicocca, Milano, Italy, September 09-17, 2011; (4) Sun Yat-Sen
University, Guangzhou, China, May 15-22, 2011.
SCIENTIFIC ASSIGNMENTS/ ACADEMIC VISITS IN INDIA
Barua, Rana:
(1) Chaired, a session of INDOCRYPT 2011, Chennai , December 11-14, 2011; (2) Visited C.R. Rao
AIMSCS, Hyderabad, September 12-14, 2011; (3) Invited talk on “Attribute Based Encryptions”, Indian
Statistical Institute-Calcutta University Workshop on Cryptology, Calcutta University, Kolkata, July 16-
17, 2011; (4) Invited talk, Indian Statistical Institute-Jadavpur University Workshop on Many Facets of
Cryptology, Jadavpur University, October 14-15, 2011.
Bose, Arup:
(1) Delivered lectures, Autocovariance Matrix, Indian Institute of Science, October 18, 2011; (2)
Delivered lectures, Conference on Random Matrix Theory and its Applications, Indian Institute of
Science, Bangalore, January 26--February 01, 2012; (3) Delivered lectures, Autocovariance Matrix,
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National Seminar on Econometrics and Development Statistics, Department of Statistics, University of
Calcutta, Kolkata, February 09--10, 2012; (4) Delivered lectures, Extreme Screening Policies, Indian
Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, February 27--March 12, 2012; (5) Delivered lectures,
Autocovariance Matrix, Economic Theory and Policy Conference, National Institute of Public Finance
and Policy, New Delhi and Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, March 29-31, 2012.
Das, Mrinal, Kanti:

(1) Delivered lecture, Projective modules and good ideals, Institute of Mathematical Sciences,
Chennai, May 25-June 04, 2011; (2) Delivered lecture, Projective generation of curves, CAAG
Conference, Pondicherry, March 05-09, 2012.
Das, Paramita:
(1) Attended, ATM Workshop on Operator Algebras, Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai,
February 09-11, 2012; (2) Participated, Instructional Workshop on Subfactors and Planar Algebras,
March 26-April 03, 2012.
Dasgupta, Ratan:
(1) Participated, The International Environmental Society (TIES), January 03-06, 2012; (2)
Participated, Three-day ‘National conference on Growth Curve Model’, Indian Statistical Institute,
Giridih, March 28-30, 2012.
Datta, Mahuya:
(1) Delivered lecture, Theory of h-principle: Sheaf theoretic technique, University of Hyderabad,
Hyderabad, April 07-08, 2011; (2) Delivered lecture, Universal property of Chern character form of
universal connection Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, August 29–September 02, 2011; (3)
Delivered lecture, Lipschitz isometric maps for pairs of Riemannian metrics, Tata Institute of
Fundamental Research, Mumbai, September 03-07, 2011; (4) Delivered lecture, Handlebody
decomposition of a manifold, Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, January 08-10, 2012; (2)
Delivered lectures, Group Theory: An application to Cryptography and Fundamental theorem of
algebra, Nagpur University, Nagpur, February 17-20, 2012.
Dutta, Amartya, Kumar:

(1) Delivered lecture, Rings and Ideals, St. Xavier's College, Kolkata, April 06, 2011; (2) Delivered
series of lectures on Integer Solutions to Aryabhata's Equation, The Transition from High School
Algebra to Abstract Algebra, History of Galois Theory, Science in India: The Modern Revival, On
subalgebras of polynomial algebras, Pondicherry University and Sri Aurobindo International Centre of
Education (SAICE), Pondicherry, October 01-17, 2011; (3) Delivered lecture, Geometric Significance
of Ideals, University of Calcutta, November 22, 2011; (4) Moderator and Examiner, Examinations of
the Indology course, Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Kolkata, Since June 2011; (5)
Delivered lecture, Architects of Science in Modern India, SAICE, March 03, 2012; (6) Member,
Organizing Committee of the International Conference on Commutative Algebra and Algebraic
Geometry (CAAG), Department of Mathematics, Pondicherry University, March 05-09, 2012;
Gupta, Neena:
(1) Visited, School of Mathematics, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, June 16-30,
2011; (2) Visited, Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, July 01-12, 2011; (3) Participated,
International Conference on Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry. Pondicherry University,
Puducherry, March 05-09, 2012.
Bandyopadhyay, Antar:
Delivered lecture, Ramanujan Mathematical Society (RMS) Annual Meeting, University of Allahabad,
October 02-05, 2011.
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Bhatia, Rajendra:
(1) Chairman, National Committee for International Mathematical Union; (2) Convener, Mathematics
Section Committee, Indian Academy of Sciences; (3) Selected Adjunct Professor and Delivered a
course of 30 lectures on Fourier Analysis, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER),
Mohali; (4) Selected, Visitor's Nominee, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, Indore and
Bhubanewar; (5) Delivered a course of 5 lectures on Matrix Analysis, Himachal Pradesh University,
Shimla, March 2012; (6) Delivered 2 lectures in the Internatilas Conference and Workshop on
Combinatorial Matrix Theory and Generalised Inverses of Matrices, Manipal University, January 2012.
Chatterjee, Arindam:
Visited, University of Calcutta, July 04-22, 2011 and December 29, 2011-January 11, 2012.
Dewan, Isha:
Invited talk and Visited, Modelling opportunistic maintenance as competing risks, Department of
Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, August 24-30, 2011.
Laishram, Shanta:
(1) Resident Faculty, MTTS 2011, Visva Bharati University, Shantiniketan, June 05-19, 2011; (2)
Attended Converence, Mathematics Education-Trends & Challenges, University of Hyderabad, August
19-21, 2011; (4) Delivered Lecture, Smooth Numbers and Cryptography, 11th National Workshop on
Cryptology, NIIT University, Neemrana, Gurgaon, September 23-24, 2011 and also Delivered
Lectures, Prime Numbers, explicit ABC Conjecture and applications and Grimm's Conjecture and
Smooth numbers, November 25, 2011; (5) Delivered Lecture, Grimm's Conjecture and Smooth
Numbers, Shiv Nadar University, Noida, December 09, 2011; (6) Delivered Talk, Prime numbers and
Cryptography, ALPHA’12, Hindu College, Delhi University, February 22, 2012; (7) Delivered Talk
Prime Numbers, Riemann Hypothesis and Grimm's conjecture, Mathematical Society, St. Stephens
College, Delhi University, February 22, 2012; (8) Delivered Lecture, Prime Numbers, Riemann
Hypothesis and Grimm's conjecture, Hans Raj College, Delhi University, February 23, 2012; (9)
Delivered Talk, Public Key Cryptography, Faculty of Engineering and Technology (FET), Manav
Rachna International University, Faridabad, March 21, 2012.
Nandi, Swagata:
Visited, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, December
18-23, 2011.
Roy, Rahul:
Visited and Delivered Lecture, Indian Institute of Science, August 29-September 02, 2011.
Sarkar, Deepayan:
(1) Visited and Delivered Lecture, R and microarray analysis using R and Bioconductor, National
Workshop on Statistical computing in Life Sciences Centre for Bionformatics, Pondicherry University,
February 27-March 04, 2012; (3) Visited and Delivered Lectures, UGC-Academic Staff College and
Department of Physiology, University of March 13-19, 2012.
Singh, Ajit Iqbal:

(1) Visited and Participated, International Satellite seminar on Role of Mathematics in Science and
Engineering, Graphic Era University, Dehradun, May 14, 2011; (2) Visited and attended, International
Colloquium on History of Mathematics, Kumaun University, Almora, May 15-18, 2011; (3) Visited and
Participated, International School on Quantum and Nano Computing Systems and Applications-
QANSAS-2011, Dayalbagh Educational Institutions, Agra, December 01-04, 2011; (4) Visited and
gave Colloquium, Quantum Dynamincal Semigroups involving Separable and Entangled States, Saha
Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata, December 28, 2011; (5) Visited and Participated, Workshop on
Functional Analysis of quantum information theory and ATM School, Operator algebras and workshop
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on Subfactors and planar algebras, Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai December 29, 2011
to March 31, 2012.
Athreya, Siva:
Visited, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Pune, July 2011.
Bhat, B.V. Rajarama:

(1) Delivered lecture, Workshop on Functional Analysis and Harmonic Analysis, Kerala School of
Mathematics, June 06-09, 2011; (2) Delivered lecture, INSPIRE programme of DST, KIIT University,
Bhubaneswar, July 21-22, 2011; (3) Participated, Instructional Workshop on the Functional Analysis of
Quantum Information Theory, Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, December 26, 2011–
January 06, 2012 and also Delivered lecture, ATM Workshop in Operator Algebras, February 07,
2012.
Padmawar, V.R.:
Delivered lecture in the Conference, Recent developments in Statistics, Mathematics and Computer
Science, Ambedkar College, Nagpur, December 01–05, 2011.
Rajeev, B.:
(1) Attended, Selection Committee Meeting, Kannur University, May 10–12, 2011; (2) Participate,
International Workshop on Finance and Stochastic Models, Anna University, Chennai, December 22–
24, 2012; (3) Delivered lecture, Martingale Representations for Functionals of Levy Processes, Calicut
University, Calicut, March 15, 2012.
Ramasubramanian,S.:
(1) Delivered lecture, Conference on Advanced Statistical Theory and Applications, Department of
Statistics, Bangalore University, Bangalore, November 16--18, 2011; (2) Delivered lecture,
International Conference on Stochastic Modelling and Simulation, VELTECH, Technical University,
Chennai, December 15--17, 2011; (3) Delivered lecture, in connection with National Mathematics
Year, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Thiruvananthapuram., March 02--03, 2012.
Sastry, N.S.N.:
(1) Delivered lecture, Workshop on Group Theory, National Institute of Science Education and
Research (NISER), Mohali, May 16-20, 2011; (2) Delivered lecture, ATM School on Representations
of Finite Groups of Lie type: Delinge-Lusztig theory, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai,
December 15–16, 2011; (3) Attended and Delivered lecture, Group Theory and Lie Theory, Harish-
Chandra Institute, Allahabad, March 19-21, 2012.
Sury,B.:
(1) Delivered lecture, `Howlett-Lehrer theory', Advanced Instructional School on Representation
Theory, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bombay, December 17, 2011; (2) Delivered lecture,
Primes, Polynomials and Progressions, National Conference on graph theory and number theory,
University of Mysore, March 22, 2012; (3) Delivered lecture, Group theory lends a hand to number
theory, Christ University, Bangalore.

Bandyopadhyay, Shibdas:
(1) Served as Member, National Statistical Commission, Government of India; (2) Delivered Lecture,
New Research with Hi-Tech Applications in Sample Surveys and Experimental Designs, New Areas of
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Statistical Applications session, National Conference on Advances in Statistical Theory and
Applications-2011, Bangalore University, November 16-18, 2011.
Pal Choudhury, Pabitra:

Delivered Lecture, Application of Integral Value Transformation (IVT) in a Specialized Computer
Network Design, Indian Science Congress, Bhubaneswar, January 06, 2012.
Adhikary, Arun Kumar:

(1) Appointed, Director of Calcutta Statistical Association; (2) Elected, Vice-Chairman, organizing
committee of the Eighth International Triennial Calcutta Symposium on Probability and Statistics to be
held at the Department of Statistics, University of Calcutta, December, 2012; (3) Appointed, member (
non-official), Expert Group for conducting All India Time Use Studies/Survey, constituted by the
Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation; (4) Host Scientist, Prof. Moses Mwangi Manene,
University of Nairobi, Kenya, C.V. Raman International Fellowship for the African Researchers, the
Federation of the Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI), New Delhi, India.
Srinivasa, Rao, Arni, S.R.:

(1) Invited Talk, International Conference on Mathematical and Theoretical Biology, Indian Institute of
Science Education and Research (IISER), Pune, January, 23-27, 2012; (2) Invited Talk, Sectional
Program: Mathematical Sciences, 99th Indian Science Congress, Bhubaneswar, January, 03-07,
2012; (3) Plenary Talk, Symposium 5, IASSH Conference, Tata Institute of Social Science, Mumbai,
November, 24-26, 2011; (4) Invited Talk, International Meeting, Theoretical and Experimental
Immunology, Faculty Hall, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, August 16, 2011; (5) Special Invited
Talk, some aspects of Riemann Mapping Theorem and its recent association with Probability, C R
RAO Advanced Institute of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science (AIMSCS), Hyderabad,
June 10, 2011.

Mitra, Sandip:
Delivered lecture, Large-scale Survey and Experiments in Social Sciences, Workshop on Research
Methodology, Department of Statistics, Gauhati University, February 23, 2012.
Mukherjee, Diganta:
(1) Co-investigator of project, Measuring the Quality of Life and Human Vulnerability in the
Sunderbans, Centre de Sciences Humaines (CSH), New Delhi, 2011-13; (2) Delivered lecture,
Assessment to Placement: Uncertainty and effort Choice, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay,
January 22, 2012 (3) Delivered lecture, Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai,
January 23, 2012; (4) Delivered lecture, Descriptive Statistics, Workshop on Biostatistics, Hooghly
Mohsin College, March 27, 2012.
Ghosh, S.C.:
Delivered lecture, 3G Network Planning and Optimization, Department of Computer Science &
Engineering, Silicon Institute of Technology, Bhubaneswar, July 2011.
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Banerjee, A.:
Delivered lecture, 3 Distributed Computing, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Silicon
Institute of Technology, Bhubaneswar, July 2011.
Sur-Kolay, S.:
(1) Attended, IEEE Symposium, July 03-05, 2011; (2) Publications Chair, Asian Test Symposium,
November 21-23, 2011; (3) Tutoria, Intellectual Property Protection and Security in System-on-Chip
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Design, 25 International Conference on VLSI Design, Hyderabad, January 07-11, 2012; (4) Delivered
lecture, Logic Synthesis of Quantum Computers, March 29; (5) Member, Board of Course of Studies,
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad, 2011-2012.
Bhattacharya, B.B.:
(1) Honorary Research Professor, Bengal Engineering and Science University, Shibpur, Howrah,
2011-12; (2) Delivered lecture, Workshop on International Symposium on Electronic System
Design (ISED 2011), December 19-21, 2011; (3) PC member, International Workshop on
Combinatorial Image Analysis (IWCIA 2012), CompImage 2012, International Symposium on
Electronic System Design (ISED 2011), ISVLSI 2011; (4) Organizing Co-chair, RASDAT 2012; (5)
Member, Steering Committee, Asian Test Symposium, 2011.
Bhattacharya Ujjwal:
(1 Delivered lecture, Machine Learning, A.K.C. School of IT, University of Calcutta, December 09,
2011; (2) Delivered lecture, Classifier Combination, TCS Innovation Lab, Kolkata, March, 2012; (3)
Delivered lecture, Machine Learning Application - Case Study – Space Applications, Mizoram
University, March 06-07, 2012; (4) Delivered lecture, Pattern Recognition Algorithms and Handwriting
Recognition: A Case Study, Hojai College, Assam, March 27-28, 2012.
Chaudhuri Bidyut B:
(1) Keynote Address, International Conference on Image Information Processing (ICIIP-2011), Jaypee
University of Information Technology, Waknaghat, Shimla, November 03, 2011; (2) Delivered lecture,
DST sponsored Language Technology School, Jadavpur University, 25 February 25, 2012; (3)
Keynote Address, International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Data Mining, V N
South Gujarat University, Surat March 03, 2012..
Garain Utpal:
(1) Delivered lecture, Automatic Text-Diagram Conversion from Natural Language Geometry
Problems, Microsoft Research India, Bangalore, June 26, 2011; (2) Delivered lecture, Machine
Authentication of Printed Security Documents, North-East Workshop on Intelligent Data Analysis:
Theory and Applications, Mizoram University, March 05-09, 2012.
Pal Umapada:
(1) Attended, Ph.D. Thesis viva, Jawaharlal Nehru Technological Institute, Kakinada, April 27, 2011;
(2) Delivered lecture, Document Image Analysis and Recognition, West Bengal State University, July
25, 2011; (3) Delivered lecture, Faculty development Program on “Cognitive Machine Intelligence and
data Mining”, BNM Institute of Technology, Bangalore; (4) Delivered Keynote Address, National
Conference on Indian Language Computing, Cochin University, Kochi, February 17-19, 2012.
Palit Sarbani:
(1) Delivered lecture, Image Watermarking and Image and Video Watermarking for Blind Quality
Assessment, Mizoram University, March 06-07, 2012; (2) Delivered lecture, Workshop on Advances in
Pattern Analysis and Application, Mizoram University, Aizawl, March 05-09, 2012; (3) Delivered
lecture, Programming with MATLAB and Application of MATLAB in Image Processing, Hojai College,
Assam, March 27-28, 2012.
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Krishnamurthy, M.:
(1) Delivered lecture, Institutional Repositories, Goa University, Goa, April 18, 2011; (2) Delivered
lecture, Dspace, Department of Library and Information Science, Kuvempu University, Shimoga, May
30–31, 2011; (3) Delivered lecture, Institutional Repository-Dspace, St. Joseph Engg. College,
Mangalore, June 14–15 2011; (4) Presented Theme Paper, Information Handling, Tools and
Techniques, National Conference on “Collection Management in Changing Context: Problems and
Prospects, Kuvempu University August 18, 2011; (5) Delivered Lecture, Implementation of E-learning
services in Library and Information Centre utilization of Open sources software in the Library and
information centre, American Corner, Bangalore, September 20, 2011; (6) Delivered lecture, Dspace &
Eprint, Training programme on Library Automation, University of Madars, November 28, 2011; (7)
Delivered lecture, Dspace, Department of Library and Information Science, University of Mangalore,
February 08-17, 2012; (8) Invited lecture, Workshop on Koha, Department of Library and Information
Science, Periyar University, Salem, February 28, 2012; (9) Delivered lecture, Digital Libraries,
Academic Staff College, Goa University, Goa, March 09, 2012.
Madalli, Devika P.:

(1) Invited Resource Person, HTML & XML Tutorials Multi Lingual Representation in Unicode for
PGDLAN students, Indira Gandhi Memorial Library, University of Hyderabad, June 16-17, 2011; (2)
Invited Resource Person, workshop on The Design and Operation of Future Digital Library, Centre for
the Study of Culture and Society , Bangalore, June 28, 2011; (3) Invited Member, Advisory Panel for
Public Library Skill Development Programme, Ministry of Culture and Raj Rammohun Roy Library
Foundation, New Delhi, August 29, 2011; (4) Invited Resource Person, Public Library Skill
Development Programme, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, January 30-31, 2012; (5) Delivered
lecture, Refresher Course participants, University of Mysore, Mysore February 09-10, 2012; (6)
Invited Guest, Refresher Course, UGC University, Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University,
Aurangabad, February 24, 2012; (7) Invited Attendee, Brainstorming Meeting in the area of Semantic
Web, Department of Information Technology, Govt. of India, New Delhi, March 16, 2012; (8) Invited
External Expert, Selection Committee Meeting, NAL, Bangalore, March 19, 2012.
Prasad, A.R.D.:
(1) Member, High Level Committee on Libraries (National Mission on Libraries), Prime Ministry of
India, 2011-2012; (2) Invited Resource Person, Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts (IGNCA),
Guwahati, April 25–29, 2011; (3) Invited Resource Person, Digital Library Software-Dspace, Indira
Gandhi Memorial Library, University of Hyderabad, June 16-17, 2011; (4) Invited Resource Person,
National Conference, Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, Pune, August 10–11, 2011; (5)
Invited, Ministry of Culture and Raj Rammohun Roy Library Foundation, Public Library Skill
Development Programme, New Delhi, August 29, 2011; (6) Delivered lecture, Accessing e-resources,
Developing Library Network (DELNET) and Raja Rammohan Roy Library Foundation (RRRLF), New
Delhi, November 23–25, 2011; (7) Invited, Selection Committee Meeting, Central University of Bihar,
Patna February 21, 2012; (8) Invited Panelist, Building Participatory Library Services in Digital Era,
PLANNER-2012, organized by Information and Library Network (INFLIBNET) & Sikkim University,
Gangtok, March 01–03 2012; (9) Visiting Fellow, Department of Library and Information Science,
University of Kashmir, Srinagar, March 12–16 2012; (10) Delivered lecture, Electronic Theses and
Dissertation, organized by Information and Library Network (INFLIBNET), Jawaharlal Nehru
University, New Delhi, March 22-23, 2012.
Raghavan, K.S.:
(1) Attended Ministry of Human Resource and Development Project Meeting of Principal Investigators,
Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi, April 14–15, 2011 and February 06, 2012; (2)
Meeting of the Boards of Trustee, SRELS and Ranganathan Centre for Information Studies, Chennai,
August 10-11 2011; (3) Invited Resource Person & Presented Paper, National Seminar on
Modernization of Public Libraries, Department of Library and Information Science, Gauhati University,
Guwahati, November 11, 2011; (4) Delivered lecture & Presented Paper, ELITE-2011, Tamilnadu
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Veterinary and Animal Sciences University, Chennai, December 08–09 2011; (5) Delivered Lecture,
Standards for Bibliograhic databases and on MARC-21, Refresher Course on Library and Information
Science, Mysore University, Mysore, February 08, 2012.
Ravichandra Rao, I.K.:

(1) Delivered lecture, Bibliometrics, Library and Information Science, UGC-Academic Staff College,
Goa University, Goa, April 05-06, 2011; (2) Invited External Expert, Promotion Committee Meeting,
Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Satellite Centre, Bangalore, May 31, 2011 and
December 23, 2011; (3) Attended, Boards of Trustee of Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library
Science (SRELS) and RCI, Chennai, August 10, 2011; (4) Invited, Advisory Committee Meeting,
University Grants Commission-Special Assistance Programme, Karnataka University, Dharward,
November 09, 2011.
Bagchi Aditya:
(1) Delivered lecture, Seminar Series of Research Methodology, Bengal Engineering & Science
University, March 19-23, 2012; (2) Delivered lecture, Research trends in IT, Ambedkar Institute of
Advance Communication Technologies & Research, New Delhi, January 02-06, 2012; (3) Delivered
lecture, International Conference on Communication and Industry Application (ICCIA-2011), The
Narula Institute of Technology, Kolkata, December 25-27, 2011; (4) Delivered lecture, National
Seminar on Application of Statistical Tools and Techniques in Multidisciplinary Field, organized by
Calcutta Statistical Association, Kolkata, November 23-25, 2011; (5) Seminar lectureed, Mody Institute
of Technology & Science, Jaipur, Rajasthan, September 24-27, 2011; (6) Delivered lecture, Workshop
on Research Trends in Data Mining (WDM 2011), Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT)
University, Bhubaneswar, May 11-13, 2011.
Chanda, Bhabatosh:
(1) Delivered lecture, Geetha Institute of Technology for Women, Mysore, March 30, 2012; (2)
Delivered lecture, Computer Science Department, Mysore University, Mysore, March 29-30, 2012; (3)
Delivered lecture, Maharaja Institute of Technology, Mysore, March 29, 2012; (4) Delivered lecture,
Science Academies' Refresher Course, Dr G.R. Damodaran College of Science, Coimbatore, January
23-February 04, 2012; (5) Delivered lecture, Three Day Faculty Development Programme titled
"Cognitive Machine Intelligence and Data Mining", B.N.M Institute of Technology, Bangalore, January
30-February 01, 2012; (6) Member, Advisory Committee, 3rd National Conference on Computer
Vision, Pattern Recognition, Image Processing and Graphics, Hubli, Karnataka, December 15-17,
2011; (7) Session Chair, ReTis 2011, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, December 22-23, 2011; (8)
Delivered lecture, NCVPRIPG 2011, Hubli, December 15-17, 2011; (9) Delivered lecture, Workshop
on 'Recent Trends in Medical Image Processing using VLSI', Orissa Engineering College,
Bhubaneswar, December 19-31, 2011; (10) Delivered lecture, Workshop on 'Image Processing Tools
and Applications' at ICFAI University, Agartala, November 14-15, 2011; (11) Seminar lecture, Orissa
Engineering College, Bhubaneshwar, September 23, 2011; (12) Delivered lecture, Workshop on
'Visual Recognition and Retrieval', Thiagarajar College of Engineering, Madurai, July 04-08, 2011; (13)
Delivered lecture,, Workshop on 'Image Analysis and Morphometry', All India Institute of Medical
Science, May 20-21, 2011.
Pal, N.R.:
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(1) Delivered lecture, 2 National Conference on Computational Intelligence and Signal Processing,
(CISP 2012), Guwahati, India, March 02-03, 2012; (2) Delivered lecture,, Fuzzy and Neural Computing
Conference (FANCCO – 2011), Bishakhapatnam, December 19–21, 2011.
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Mukherjee, Dipti Prasad:
(1) Invited lecture, Multi-Sensor Data Fusion Workshop, Defence Institute of Advanced Technology,
Pune, November 17-18, 2011; (2) Invited lecture, Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts of India
(ICFAI) University, Agartala, November 14-15, 2011.
Das, Swagatam:
(1) Delivered lecture, 1st Computational Intelligence Colloquium on Computational Biology, organized
by IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Chapter, IEEE Hyderabad Section, Vishakapatnam, Febr
17-18, 2012; (2) Delivered lecture, AICTE Sponsored SDP, Kalyani Govt. Engineering College,
February 09, 2012; (3) Delivered Lecture, IEEE CIS Winter School on Advances in Computational
Intelligence, Institute of Technical Education & Research (ITER), Bhubaneswar, December 26-27,
2011.
Bandyopadhyay,S.:
(1) Delivered Lectures, International Conference on Information Systems Design and Intelligent
Applications (INDIA-2012), January 06, 2012; (2) Indian Science Congress, Bhubaneshwar, January
07, 2012; (3) Indo-Singapore Workshop, Saha Institute for Nuclear Physics, Kolkata, February 02-03,
2012; (4) Joint Science Academies Lecture Workshop, University of Delhi South Campus, New Delhi
India, February 17, 2012; (5) National Young Scientists Conference, Presidency College, February 18,
2012.
Kundu, M.K.:
(1) Technical program Committee Co-Chair, 1st Indo-Japan Conference on Perception and Machine
Intelligence (PerMIn'12), Kolkata, January 12-13, 2012; (2) External Expert Member, doctoral
committee of faculty of engineering, Department of Information Technology, Bengal Engineering and
Science University, Sibpur, July 28, 2011; (3) Delivered lecture, Society of Applied Mathematics,
Indian School of Mines University, Dhanbad, Jharkhand, April 18, 2011.
Mitra, S.:
(1) Delivered lectures, AICTE Staff Development Program on "Softcomputing in Bioinformatics",
Tripura Institute of Technology, Agartala, July 11-12, 2011; (2) Guest Lecture, IEEE Women in
Intelligence Seminar, Hyderabad Section, August 13, 2011.
Majumdar, K.K.:
(1) Delivered lecture, National Brain Research Center, Manesar, Haryana, October 31-November 01,
2011; (2) Participated through Videoconference, curriculum development program for B.Tech.,
Systems Science of Indian Institute of Technology, Jodhpur, December 11-12, 2011; (3) Delivered
lecture, International Conference on Game Theory, Operations Research and Their Applications,
Indian Statistical Institute, Chennai, January 04-08, 2012; (4) Delivered lecture, EEG based brain
computer interface, M.S. Ramayya Institute of Technology, Bangalore, March 27, 2012.
Meher, S.K.:
Delivered lecture, AICTE sponsored Staff Development Programme, Future Trends in Industrial
Mathematics for Engineers, National Institute of Science and Technology, Berhampur, March 20-24,
2012.
Sagar, B.S.D.:
(1) Member, Doctoral Committee, University of Hyderabad, 2011; (2) Member of Doctoral Committee,
Indian Institute of Science, 2011.
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Das, S.S.:
Presented paper, Geology of Kachchh Basin, Western India: Present Status and Future Perspectives,
Department of Earth and Environmental Science, KSKV Kachchh University, Bhuj-Kachchh, January
26–29, 2012.
Saha, Dilip:
(1) Participated, 8th International Symposium on Gondwana to Asia, Supercontinent Dynamics: India
and Gondwana International Association for Gondwana Research (IAGR), Hyderabad, August 26-28,
2011; and Post-symposium Field Workshop, International Association for Gondwana Research (IAGR)
Annual Convention, Hyderabad August 30, 2011; (2) Participated, Annual General Meeting,
Geological Society of India and National Seminar on Geodynamics and Metallogenesis of the Indian
Lithosphere, Banaras, September 22-24, 2011; (3) Delivered lecture, Workshop on “Precambrian
Tectonics and Related Mineralization in South India”, Atomic Minerals Directorate for Exploration and
Research and BRNS, Bangalore, October 13, 2011.
Das, P.K.:
Participated, Conference on Analysis (KRP75), Delhi Centre, Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi,
December 23–25, 2011.
Kar, G.:
Visited, Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, March 14–25, 2012
Mandal, B.N.:
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Delivered, P.L. Bhatnagar Memorial Lecture, 56 Congress of the Indian Society of Theoretical and
Applied Mechanics (ISTAM), Surat, Gujrat, November 19-21, 2011.
Mazumder, B.S.:
(1) Visited, Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, July 12-15, 2011;
(2) Snow and Avalanche Study Establishment (SASE), Chandigarh, September 26-29, 2011.
Pal, S.:
(1) Delivered Lecture, Resource Person, National seminar on Astronomy & Astrophysics: Birth
Centenary Tribute to S. Chandrashekhar, Raja Rammohun Roy College, Hooghly, November 24-25,
2011; (2) Delivered Lecture, International workshop on Advances in Astroparticle Physics and
Cosmology, organized by Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Darjeeling, March 07-12, 2012; (3)
Delivered VI th Prof. Chameli Basu Memorial Lecture, Bethune College, Kolkata, March 28, 2012.
Parashar, P.:
Delivered Invited talk, International School and Conference on Quantum Information, Bhubaneswar,
December 13-22, 2011.
Roy, S.:
1) Participated, International Workshop on Cosmology and Conciousness, Dharmasala, December 15-
22, 2012; 2) Participated, International Conference “Looking in” National Institute of Advance Studies”,
Bangalore, January 2-5, 2012.
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Mukhopadhyay, B.:
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(1) 1 Forum for Ethics Review Committees in India (FERCI) National Conference on Research
Ethics, Tata Memorial Centre, Mumbai, November 5-6, 2011; (2) Lucknow University, Indian
Anthropological Congress, February 21-23, 2012.
Mukhopadhyay, S.:
1st Forum for Ethics Review Committees in India (FERCI) National Conference on Research Ethics,
Tata Memorial Centre, Mumbai, November 5-6, 2011.
Vasulu, T.S.:
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1 Annual Conference of Society for Mitochondrial Research and Medicine, Centre for Cellular and
Molecular Biology (CCMB), Hyderabad, December 9-10, 2011.
Goswami, G.:
(1) Selected Member, Task force on Nanobiotechnology, Department of Biotechnology; (2) Selected
Member, Task force on RNAi, Department of Biotechnology; (3) Selected Program leader, Component
I, Nanotechnology Platform, Indian Association For Cancer Research (ICAR); (4) Selected Expert
(Nanobiotechnology), National Fund, Indian Association For Cancer Research (ICAR).
Banerjee, Priyadarshi:
(1) Participated and Presented Paper, The Effect of Minimal Group Framing on a Dictator Game
Experiment’, CESP conference on experimental and behavioural economics, Delhi, February 15-16,
2012; (2) Presented Invited Paper, ‘Price Interventions in Bertrand Oligopoly with Costly Entry’, Indira
Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR), Bombay, March 14, 2012; (3) Participated and
presented paper, ‘Price Interventions in Bertrand Oligopoly with Costly Entry’, JNU/NIPFP Economic
Theory and Policy Conference, Delhi, March 28-31, 2012,
Das, Saswati:
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Participated and presented a paper at 48 Annual Conference of the Indian Econometric Society
(TIES), Pondichery University, Pondichery, March 1-3, 2012.
Ghosh, Buddhadeb:
Invited lectures, Inter-Transition of Districts in Infrastructure between 1991-2001: Future Prospect,
Vinod Gupta School of Management, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, December 28-30,
2011.
Neogi, Chiranjib:
(1) Invited lectures, Data Envelopment Analysis, Government College of Engineering and Leather
Technology, Kolkata, July 14-15, 2011; (2) Visiting Fellow, Department of Economics, University of
Kalyani, Nadia, January 02-March, 31, 2012.
Sarkar, Nityananda:
(1) Invited lectures, Time Series Econometrics, Burdwan University, West Bengal, April 06, 2011; (2)
Invited lectures, Applications of Econometric Tools for Management Research, National Institute of
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Science and Technology, Orissa, June 27-28, 2011; (3) Invited lectures, Applied Econometrics,
Presidency University, Kolkata, September 09 and 12, 2011; (4) Invited lectures, Time Series
Analysis, West Bengal State University, West Bengal, September 23, 2011; (5) Invited lectures, Time
Series Modelling, Reserve Bank of India, Mumbai, January 27 and 28, 2012; (6) Invited lectures on
Econometrics and Development Statistics, Calcutta University, February 09, 2012.
Economic Analysis Unit
Narayana, N.S.S.:
Visited, Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore, November 2011.
Dasgupta, Probal:
Lectured at the JNU/CIIL International Consultative Meet on ‘Mother Tongue Based Multilingual
Education: Framework, Strategies and Implementation’ at the Central Institute of Indian Languages,
Mysore, 19-21 September 2011.
Dash, Niladri Sekhar:

(1) Core Member, pan-Indian meeting for developing Dependency Grammar Based Tree Bank for
Indian languages, International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT), Hyderabad, April 26, 2011;
(2) Examiner, 5-Years integrate MA course in Sanskrit, Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda University,
Belur Math, Howrah, June 24, 2011; (3) Language Expert, workshop for “Preparation of Bangla
Glossary for Knowledge in Text in Bangla”, organized by National Translation Mission, Central Institute
of Indian Languages, MHRD, Govt. of India, Dept. of Comparative Literature, Jadavpur University,
Kolkata, September 19-30, 2011; (4) Taught, Ph. D. Students of Dept of Linguistics, University of
Calcutta in the area of Natural Language Processing, Quantitative Linguistics, Language Data
Sampling Methods, Language Data Collection Techniques, and Quantitative Analysis of Language
Data, August 17-27, 2011; (5) Delivered Lecture, Language Specific Synset: in Search of Unique
Concepts in the Fabric of Cross-cultural Fusion, 2nd Indradhanush WordNet Workshop, Department of
Computer Science and Technology, Goa University, Goa, August 08-10, 2011; (6) Delivered Lecture,
rd
“Animal Names Used in Addressing People in Bengali: A Sociolinguistic Exploration”, 33 All India
rd
Conference of Linguists (33 AICL), Department of English and Culture Studies, Punjab University,
Chandigarh, October 01-03, 2011; (7) Participated, ILCI-PIs Meeting and presented work report of
ILCI-Bengali, Special Centre for Sanskrit Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, October
08, 2011; (8) Delivered Lecture, “Corpus Linguistics and Natural Language Processing”, 10-Day
Orientation-Cum-Training Programme on Natural Language Processing, Department of Linguistics,
organized by LDC-IL, Dept. of Higher Education, Ministry of HRD, Govt. of India, University of
Kashmir, Srinagar, November 04-07, 2011; (9) Delivered Lecture, Utilization of Digital Dictionary in
Classroom Teaching, CTE Orientation Programme on Bengali for in-service teachers of Secondary
and Higher Secondary Schools of West Bengal, organized by Ramakrishna Mission Sikshanmandira,
Belur Math, Howrah and sponsored by the MHRD, Govt. of India, November 11, 2011; (10) Delivered
Lecture, “Corpus-Based English Language Teaching (C-BELT): English Corpora as a Primary
Resource for Teaching English to the Indian Learners”, National Seminar on Social Contexts and
Approaches in ELT, Netaji Subhas Open University, Kolkata, November 18, 2011; (11) Delivered
Lecture, “Language Specific Synset for the Bengali WordNet”, National Seminar on Cross-Roads of
Language and Technology: Eastern and North-Eastern Indian Perspectives, Society for Natural
Language Technology Research (SNLTR), Kolkata, November 22-23, 2011; (12) Presented Paper,
“Principles and Rules for POS Tagging of the Bengali Text Corpus”, National Seminar On POS
Annotation for Indian Languages: Issues & Perspectives (POSANIl-2011), LDC-IL, CIIL, Mysore,
December 12-13, 2011; (13) Presented Paper, “Compound Nouns and Adjectives in Bengali: Some
Empirical Observations”, Multi Word Expression Workshop, AU-KBC, Anna University, Chennai,
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December 15-16, 2011; (14) Paper Reviewer, 9 International Conference on Natural Language
Processing (ICON- 2011), Anna University, Chennai, December16-19, 2011; (15) Delivered lecture,
“Digital Pronunciation Dictionary for Bengali: A Tool of the Time” in 9th International Conference on
Natural Language Processing (ICON-2011), Anna University, Chennai, India, December 16-19, 2011;
th
(16) Delivered lecture, ”Linguistic Issues Relating to Bengali WordNet”, 4 Indradhanush Workshop,
Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay, Mumbai,
January 01-02, 2012; (17) Delivered lecture, “Understanding the Nature and Role of Hyphen in
Bengali Text Corpus to deal with the Problems of Normalization and POS Tagging of Hyphenated
th
Bengali Words”, 6 National ILCI Workshop, Dept. of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute
of Technology-Bombay, Mumbai, January 03-04, 2012; (18) Delivered lecture, “Non-verbal Human
Communication within Socio-cultural Communicative Interfaces”, National Seminar on Culture Studies
and Literary Applications, Dept. of English, Panskura Banamali College, Purba Medinipur, February
03-04, 2012; (19) Delivered lecture, “Machine Translation: A New Method of Translation”, Translators’
Orientation Programme for Knowledge Text Translation, conducted by National Translation Mission,
CIIL, Ministry of HRD, Govt. of India, Dept. of Linguistics, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, February 08,
2012; (20) Delivered lecture, “Principles of Part-Of-Speech (POS) Tagging in Bengali Language
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Corpus”, 2 National Conference on Emerging Trends in Educational Informatics (ETEI-2011),
National Institute of Technical Teachers’ Training and Research, Kolkata, February 16-17, 2012; (21)
Delivered lecture, “Corpus Linguistics: Walking through the Avenues of Language Use”, Schools of
Linguistics, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, February 15-25, 2012.
Planning Unit
Afridi, Farzana:
Presentation, International Conference on ‘Emerging Issues in Public Finance and Policy, CSSS,
Kolkata, February, 2012.
Ghate, Chetan:
(1) Invited Speaker, 12th Neemrana-NBER Conference, December, 2011. (2) Invited Talk, DSGE
Models, Center for Development Studies, Kerala, November 2012.
Mukhopadhyay, Abhiroop:
The Indian Econometric Society, Pondicherry, 2012.
Rajaraman, Indira:
(1) Delivered lecture, International Conference on Wind Power, Chennai, April 08, 2011; (2) Delivered
lecture, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Kolkata, February 22, 2011; (3) Delivered lecture,
“State Reforms: The Final Frontier”, Sixth Mindmine Summit, Delhi, April 22, 2011; (4) Delivered
lecture, National Seminar: The Direct Taxes Code, Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General of
India, Delhi, May 04, 2011; (5) Co-ordinator, Panel Discussion on the Growing International Role of
the Chinese RMB – What Implications for India? IGC-ISI Policy Workshop, Delhi, July 14, 2011; (6)
Chair, Session at Planning Commission Consultation on Pooling Knowledge on Gender and Planning,
Delhi, September 06, 2011; (7) Chair, Session on Finance, IGC-ISI India Development Policy
Conference; Panelist on Institutional Design and Urban Transformation, India Urban Conference 2011,
Delhi, November 22, 2011; (8) Conference on Growth and Inclusion: Theoretical and Applied
Perspectives; IGC-Delhi, December 19, 2011; (9) Panel lecturer, World Bank-ICRIER-UK aid, Growth
Inflation and Inclusion, Delhi, January 13, 2012.
Ray, Tridip:
(1) Indian School of Business, Hyderabad, April 28-29, 2011; (2) Indira Gandhi Institute of
Development Research, Mumbai, January 10–11, 2012.
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Sen, Arunava:
(1) Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai, September 19-22, 2011; (2) Institute of
Rural Management, Anand, Gujrat, March 11-13, 2012.
Bhattacharya, H:
Presented paper, First InSPA National Conference on School Psychology: Challenges and
Opportunities, J.N. Vyas University, Jodhpur, November, 26-28, 2011.
Dhara, Jayeta;
Presented paper, 14th National Conference on School Psychology, Pondicherry University,
Pondicherry, January 27–28, 2012.
Dutta Roy,D.:
(1) Delivered lecture, ‘Cost of change and Readiness for change', and 'Level of change management
and Psychological preparedness’, India Oil Bhawan, Indian Oil Corporation Ltd., August 08, 2011; (2)
Delivered lecture, Rabindrik Psychotherapy, MIND INDIA, Guwahati, November 04, 2011; (3)
Delivered lecture, Statistical analysis through SPSS in Educational Research, Department of
Education, Rabindra Bharati University, December 1-2, 2011; (4) Delivered lecture, 'General
guidelines for report writing in special education' organized by Manovikash Kendra, December 04,
2011; (5) Chairing Technical Session and Delivered lecture, National Conference on Emerging
Research: Paradigms in Business Management, George College, March 03, 2012.
Ghosh, A.:
Participated and presented paper, International Conference on Social Justice and Human
Development, Department of Psychology, University of Allahabad, December 18–20, 2011
Gupta, Rumki:
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(1) Participated and Presented Paper, 33 Annual Conference of International School Psychology
Association, Vellore Institute of Technology University, July 18–23, 2011; (2) Delivered lecture,
th
Rahara Sangha, 24 Pgs., September, 2011; (3) Participated, Presented Paper and Chair-Person, 14
National Conference on School Psychology, Pondicherry University, Pondicherry, January 27–28,
2012; (4) Delivered lecture, Paschim Banga Bangla Academy, March 04, 2012.

Jana, Rabindranath:
(1) Delivered lecture and participated, ‘Workshop on Social Networks’, jointly organized by Institute of
Mathematical Sciences, Chennai and Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, February 20-24, 2012;
(2) Presented Paper, ‘National Conference on Applications of Statistics in Industry and Planning’,
organized by Department of Statistics of Visva-Bharati in collaboration with Calcutta Statistical
Association, February 25-27, 2012.
Chakraborty, Sonali:
Presented a paper, Occupational Segregation and Gender Wage Gap conference, organized by
Central Statistical Organisation, Kolkata, September 17, 2011.
Chattopadhyay, Molly:
Presented a paper, Occupational Segregation and Gender Wage Gap conference, organized by
Central Statistical Organisation, Kolkata, September 17, 2011.
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Ramachandran V.K.:
Delivered lecture, V.P. Chintan Memorial Lecture, Chennai, December, 2011.
Swaminathan, Madhura:
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(1) Delivered lecture, “Is India Really a Country of Low Income Inequality?”, 7 Atul Goswami
Memorial Lecture, Guwahati, July 2011; (2) Member, Seminar and Travel Grant Committee of the
Indian Council of Social Science Research, New Delhi, 2012; (3) Member, Research Advisory
Committee of the Indian Institute of Dalit Studies, 2012.

Perumallu, P.K.:
Participated, Review Committee of the National assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC),
Bangalore, March, 2012.
John, Boby:
(1) Invited Talk, Rapid Miner, Workshop on Business Analytics, M S Ramaiah Institute of Technology,
Bangalore, April 29, 2011; (2) Delivered lecture, Business Analytics, International Workshop on
Information Processing (ICIP 2011), Sir M Vishweshwaraiah Institute of Technology, Bangalore,
August 05, 2011; (3) Resource Person, Workshop on Rapid Miner: An open source software for data
mining, Karunya University, Coimbatore, March 14, 2012; (4) Delivered lecture, Design of
Experiments, Workshop on Quantitative Techniques for Research, University BDT College of
Engineering, Davanagere, March 30, 2012.
Ravindran, G.:
(1) Presented, “Bankruptcy Problems and Cooperative Games”, International Symposium on Game
Theory Teaching & Applications, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, December 16, 2011; (2) Presented,
“Polynomial Time Algorithm for Sub-clauses of Simple Stochastic Games”, International Conference
on Applications of Game Theory in Policies and Decisions, Hyderabad, December 12-13, 2011.
Biswas, Amit:
(1) Presented, “Efficacy of a drug in treating Dysfunctional Uterine Bleeding”, ICQRE-2011, Bangalore,
December 20-22, 2011; (2) Presented, “Effect of carbohydrates on Candida albicans biofilms on
denture acrylic”, National Conference on Statistics in Life Sciences by SDNB Vaishnav College for
Women, Chennai, January, 2012; (3) Presented, “Development, Architecture and Perfusion of
Antifungal Agents”, International Conference on Biosciences – Trends in Molecular Medicine,
February 2012.
Sampangi Raman, D.:

(1) Delivered lecture, Relevance of Total Quality Management for Engineers at Department of
Computer Science and Engineering, Anna University, Chennai; (2) Gave an invited talk at DST-Inspire
Internship Program at School of BioTechnology, Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT),
Bhubaneswar; (3) Delivered lecture, Statistics for Medicine, Sri Ramachandra College of Management
(Hospital and Health Systems), Chennai; (4) Invited Speaker, Process Control, Annual vendor
conference of ITC (ESPB), Pune.
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SQC & OR Unit, Coimbatore
Rajagopal A.:
(1) Delivered lecture, “Lean Manufacture Practices and Implementation Issue”, Karpagam College of
Engineering, Coimbatore, September 17, 2011; (2) Delivered lecture, “Statistics in industrial
Applications”, Sri Venkateswara University, Coimbatore, January 17, 2012; (3) Delivered lecture,
“Lean Manufacture Practices and Implementation Issue”, Dr. S.N.S. Ramakrishna College,
Coimbatore, March 21, 2012; (4) Delivered lecture, “Factors and Clusters on Performance Analysis in
Management Arena”, Karpagam College of Engineering, Coimbatore, March 30, 2012.
SQC & OR Unit, Hyderabad
Murthy, G.S.R.:
Member and Team Leader, Rajiv Gandhi National Quality Award Evaluation Committee – Western
zone, 2012.
Murthy, A.L.N.:
(1) Judged, 25th Annual Quality Circle Convention, Hyderabad Chapter of QCFI, August 23-24, 2011;
(2) Judged, Inter Unit Annual Quality Circle Convention of BHEL units, Hyderabad, November 03,
2011; (3) Participated, 8th Annual Conference, organized by Indian Society for Quality, Hyderabad,
August 05, 2011.
Subhani, S.M.:
(1) Co-Chaired, National Workshop on ‘Recent advances in Data Mining & Data warehousing’, co-
sponsored by DST, QCI and DRDO, Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi, October 19-23, 2011; (2)
Delivered Lecture, Data Mining and Data Warehousing during the Workshop on ‘Recent advances in
Data Mining & Data warehousing’, organized by ISI and co-sponsored by DST, QCI and DRDO on
Delhi, October 21, 2011.
Murali Rao, G.:

Judged, 25th Annual Quality Circle Convention, Hyderabad Chapter of QCFI, August 23-24, 2011.
Das, A.K.:
(1) Delivered lectures, Two Conjectures in Complementary Modeling Theory, International Conference
on Advances in Modeling, Optimization and Computing (AMOC -2011), organized by the Department
of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee with the support of IIT, Roorkee, CSIR and
Department of Atomic Energy, December 05-07, 2011; (2) Delivered lectures, Role on
Complementarity Theory in Operations Research, UGC sponsored National Seminar, Recent Trends
in Real World Problems on Applied Mathematics (RTRWPAM-2011), organized by Department of
Mathematics, Narasinha Dutt College, Howrah, December 21-22, 2011; (3) Delivered lectures,
Statistical Technique, Environmental Data Analysis under Ministry of Environment and Forest, Indian
Statistical Institute, Delhi, February 22-24, 2012.
Sikder, Sagar:
Lecture on “Concept of Quality in Research and Development”, Naval Material Research Laboratory
(NMRL), Ambernath (DRDO), December 14, 2011.
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Library, Documentation and Information Science Division
Library, Kolkata
Pal, Jiban K.:

(1) Invited as resource person, Interactive Radio Counseling of Master of Library and Information
Science (MLIS) courses in a live broadcast of Gyan Vani FM Radio Station (105.4 MHz), Indira Gandhi
National Open University (IGNOU) Regional Centre, Kolkata, November06, 2011; (2) Attended, Online
Conference on Trends in Library Training and Learning – Developing Staff Skills for the 21st Century,
The WebJunction with Learning Round Table of the American Library Association (ALA), Chicago,
USA, August 10-11, 2011.
Raychaudhury, Arup:
Delivered invited lecture, University Grants Commission (UGC) Sponsored Refresher Course in
Library and Information Science, University of Calcutta, Kolkata.
Library, Bangalore
Kalyan, V.L.:
Delivered invited lecture, National Workshop on How to Prepare a Library for ISO Accreditation,
Kolkata, March 29-30, 2012.

Chakraborty, M.K.:
(1) Presented Paper, Fuzzy Sets and Rough Sets from the perspective of indiscernibility, Indian
Conference on Logic and Applications (ICLA), New Delhi, January 05-11, 2012; (2) Presented Paper,
Workshop on Indian Systems of Logic at Indian School on Logic and Applications (ISLA2012),
Manipal, January 09-20, 2012; (3) Delivered lecture, National Seminar on Nonlinear Aspects of
Analysis and Algebra, Visva Bharati, Santiniketan, March 24-25, 2012.
Ghosh, A.:
(1) Attended, Meeting of the Expert Committee-USERS” , DST, Simla, Himachal Pradesh, August 08,
2011; (2) Delivered lecture, International Conference on Industrial Applications of Soft Computing
Techniques, Eastern Academy of Science and Technology (EAST), Bhubaneswar, August 20, 2011;
(3) Delivered lecture, Workshop on "Recent Development in Soft Computing" (RDSC'11), Modern
Engineering & Management Studies, Balasore, November 19, 2011; (4) Invited Speaker, National
Workshop on Machine Learning, Konark Institute of Science & Technology (KIST), Bhubaneswar,
December 29, 2012; (5) Delivered lectured, Workshop on “Recent Trends of Data Warehousing &
Data Mining”, Heritage Institute of Technology, Kolkata, February 01, 2012; (6) Delivered lectured,
National Conference on "Intelligent systems and Soft computing", Department of Information and
Communication Technology, Fakir Mohan University, Balasore, March 07, 2012; (7) Delivered
lectured, National Workshop on “Soft computing and numerical optimization”, Gandhi Institute of
Excellent Technocrats, Bhubaneswar, March 17, 2012; (8) Attended, Meeting of the Expert
Committee-USERS conducted by DST, Indian Institute of Technology, Allahabad, March 20, 2012; (9)
Delivered lectured, Computational Challenges – The Next Generation Challenges (CI-NGC-2012),
organized by The Institution of Engineers, Kolkata, March 24, 2012.
Ghosh, K.:
Attended as Program Co-chair, First Indo-Japan Conference on Perception and Machine Intelligence
(PerMIn 2012), Kolkata, January 12-13, 2012.
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Pal, S.K:
(1) Delivered Keynote Address, Workshop on Futuristic Communication Technologies and Trends for
Military Applications, Defence Electronics Applications Laboratory (DEAL), Dehradun, Uttarakhand,
February 15-16, 2012; (3) Delivered lecture, Vidyasagar University, Medinipur, West Bengal, March
15-16, 2012; (4) Delivered lecture, National Seminar on Nonlinear Aspects of Analysis and Algebra,
Viswa Bharati, Santiniketan, March 24-25, 2012; (5) Delivered the Inaugural talk, National Conference
on Robotics and Automation, Adamas Institute of Technology, Kolkata, February 04, 2012; (6)
Delivered a Plenary talk, World Congress on Communication and Information Technologies
(WICT’11), Mumbai, December 11-14, 2011; (7) Delivered the Inaugural talk, Faculty Development
Programme, Kumaraguru College of Technology, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, December 10, 2011; (8)
Delivered the Keynote talk, the National Conference on Machine Vision and Image Processing,
(MVIP11), College of Engineering, Pune, December 07, 2011; (9) Delivered the Inaugural Address,
Dept. of Computer Science, Periyar University, Salem, Tamil Nadu, September 26-27, 2011; (10)
Delivered the Keynote talk, Workshop on Machine Learning and Applications, Institute of Technical
Education & Research, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, October 14, 2011; (11) Delivered a Keynote talk,
Aaruush’11, SRM University, Chennai, September 07-08, 2011; (12) Delivered lecture, Prof. P.P.
Chatterjee Memorial Lecture, Dept. of Applied Mathematics, University of Calcutta, September 05,
2011.
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PART III. ADMINISTRATION AND OFFICE BEARERS
10. GENERAL ADMINISTRATION
Administrative Services Division
The Administrative Services Division at the headquarters caters to the various needs of the scientific
workers in all the scientific units of the Institute engaged in various scientific, research and academic
activities and provides them with necessary infrastructural facilities in their pursuit of excellence. The
centres at Delhi, Bangalore, Chennai and Tezpur, each having a number of science units are, by and
large, getting administrative support from the administrative units/sections there. The Administrative
Division has the following units at the Headquarters in Kolkata:
Sl. No. Name of the Unit Sl. No. Name of the Unit
1. Accounts Section 17. Import & Travel Cell
2. Audio-Visual Unit 18. Internal Audit Cell
3. Binding Unit 19. Legal Cell
4. Canteen 20. Medical Expenses
Reimbursement Unit
5. Cash 21. Medical Welfare Unit
6. C E (A & F)’s Office 22. Personnel Unit
7. Central Office & Despatch Unit 23. Provident Fund Unit
8. Central Stores & Tailoring Unit 24. Public Relations Unit
9. Council Section 25. Publication and Printing Unit
10. Director’s Office 26. Rajbhasha / Hindi Cell
11. Electrical Maintenance Unit 27. Retirement Benefit Cell
12. Engineering Unit 28. Sankhya Office
13. Estate Office 29. Security Unit
14. Guest House 30. Telephone Unit
15. Hostels 31. Transport Unit
16. House Building Cell
Apart from the Units mentioned above, there are some small cells dealing with Budget, SC / ST issues
etc. to take care of the specific needs of the Institute. The Administrative Services Division also looks
after the running of hostels for students, research scholars and International Statistical Education
Centre (ISEC) trainees and also the running of Canteen for the workers and students of the Institute.
The other outlying Units are controlled directly by the headquarters at Kolkata. The Administrative
Services Division takes the responsibility for all new construction activities of the Institute at its
headquarters and also at outlying centres/branches. A brief report on the construction activity in the
current year is narrated in the subsequent paragraphs.
The activities of the Administrative Services in the four Centres, namely Delhi, Bangalore, Chennai
and North East Centre at Tezpur and in other outlying branches of the Institute and Giridih Office, are
more or less similar but on a much smaller scale.
Officers of the Institute administration during the year:
Director : Bimal K. Roy

Professors-in-Charge of : Goutam Mukherjee (Theoretical Statistics &
Scientific Divisions Mathematics)
Subhamoy Maitra (Applied Statistics)
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Administration
Madhura Swaminathan (Social Sciences)
Sisir Roy (Physics & Earth Sciences)
Anjana Dewanji (Biological Sciences)
Subhas Chandra Nandy (Computer &

Communication Sciences)
Head, SQC & OR : Amitava Bandyopadhyay
Head, Delhi Centre : Satya P. Das
Head, Bangalore Centre : T.S.S.R.K. Rao upto 31.08.2011

N.S.N. Sastry w.e.f. 01.09.2011
Head, Chennai Centre : D. Sampangi Raman (Officiating) upto 14.04.2011

C. Pandu Rangan from 15.04.2011 to 31.03.2012 (FN)
P.S.S.N.V.P. Rao (Acting) w.e.f.31.03.2012 (AN)
Dean of Studies : B.P. Sinha
Chief Executive (A & F) : S.K. Iyer
List of workers who joined/retired/voluntarily retired/resigned/terminated/died during the year

Appointments
Scientific / Technical Workers
Sl. No. Name Sl. No. Name
1. C. Pandu Rangan 13. Paramita Das

2. Sushama M. Bendre 14. Rituparna Sen
3. Farzana Afridi 15. Ayineedi Venkateswarlu
4. Jaydeb Sarkar 16. Swagato Kumar Ray
5. Mridul Nandi 17. Sudheesh Kumar Kattumannil
6. Kakoli Gogoi 18. Partha Partim Ghosh
7. Hemantaraj Kachari 19. Swagata Chakraborty (Sarkar)
8. Mithun Raj M 20. Sugata Gangopadhyay
9. Suresh Nayak 21. Rajesh Sharma
10. Parthanil Roy 22. Sujata Ghosh
11. Siva Kumar R 23. Diganta Mukherjee
12. Shamindra Kumar Ghosh
Non-Scientific Workers
1. P.K. Lal 7. Susmita De

2. Suchintya Kumar Gupta 8. Niraj Bhuyan
3. Sujoy Das 9. Amar Deep
4. Naveenkumar Arumugam 10. Surajit Laha
5. Rimlee Bardhan 11. Pradip Kr. Sarkar
6. Arunima Das 12. Biju Mathew
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Retirement/Voluntary Retirement:
Scientific & Technical Workers
1. Shyamal Mukhopadhyay 7. I.K. Ravichandra Rao

2. Arun Kumar De 8. Samarendra Bhattacharya
3. Somesh Chandra Bagchi 9. Pradip Kr. Das
4. S.K. Majumdar 10. Madan Chakraborty
5. Bijoy Shingha Mazumder 11. Subrata Bhattacharyya
6. S.S. Handa 12. Biswanath Halder
Non-Scientific Workers

1. Swapan Kr. Banerjee 17. Kalyan Bhattacharjee
2. Badri Prasad Adak 18. Asit Kr. Chakraborty
3. Subhas Dutta 19. Rajani Kanta Prasad
4. Alokesh Chattopadhyay 20. Nemai Das
5. Sudev Roy 21. Swapan Kr. Pal
6. Krishna Ch. Samadder 22. Dipak Kumar Kundu
7. Bahadur Singh 23. Sanjoy Kr. Seth
8. Panchanan Nayak 24. Adinath Chakraborty
9. Abinash Halder 25. Sm. Ibha Goswami
10. Ajit Kumar Chatterjee 26. H. Badrinath
11. Ajit Maity 27. Rajendra Ram
12. N. Chandrasekharan 28. Md. Aslam
13. Dilip Bhattacharjee 29. Lattu Singh
14. Dinesh Nandan Sabharwal 30. Babulal Mahato
15. Asit Chatterjee 31. Prasanta Kr. Swar
16. Biswanath Paul 32. Narayan Singh
Resignation/Termination
Scientific Worker
Sl. No. Name

1. C. Pandu Rangan
Non-Scientific Worker
Sl. No. Name

1. K. Gangaraju
Death
Scientific/Technical Worker
Sl. No. Name

1. Shubhasree Ganguly
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Number of workers in the Institute as on 31st March 2012 (A.N)
Number of workers in the Institute as on 31 March 2012:
(i) Scientific and Technical Workers - 416

(ii) Non-Scientific Workers - 676
Total : 1092
Breakup of manpower by Gender, Social category and Disability group as on 31st

March 2012 (A.N)
Total Strength Physically Scheduled Caste Scheduled Other

Handicapped (SC) Tribe (ST) Backward
(PH) Class
(OBC)
Male 924 06 110 32 63
Female 168 Nil 16 01 02
Total 1092 06 126 33 65
Applications received and action taken by the Institute under RTI Act, 2005
Name of the Appellate Authority: Professor Bimal K. Roy, Director of the Institute.
Name of Central Public Information Officer: Shri S.K. Iyer, Chief Executive (Admn. & Finance) of the
Institute.
A total number of 42 (forty two) applications were received by the Central Public Information Officer of
the Institute during 2011-12, out of which 8 (eight) applications were rejected due to non-receipt of
application fees. Central Public Information Officer provided information against remaining 34 (thirty
four) applications within the stipulated date. The summary statement in this regard for the year 2011-
12 is appended below:-
No. of No. of Decisions No. of

Appli- cases where decisions
cations accep requests were from C I C decision Amount collected
recei- -ted fully or Appe- (Rs.)
ved partially llate
rejected Autho-
rity
Fully Partia- No. of Penalty Disci- Fee Other Penalty
rejec- lly deci- impo- plinary Char- amount
ted rejec- sions sed action, ges
ted recei- if any
ved
42 34 8 Nil Nil Nil NIL NIL 364 90 NIL
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Budget and Finance
For the year 2011-2012, Section 8(1) Committee recommended Rs.13506.20 lakhs (Government
Grant Rs.13273.00 lakhs and ISI internal receipt Rs.233.20 lakhs) under Non-Plan (BE) and
Rs.4048.17 lakhs under Plan (BE). The Government approved a sum of Rs.10500.00 lakhs and of
Rs.4000.00 lakhs for Non-Plan and Plan expenditure respectively. At the revised estimate stage, the
Institute sought for a grant of Rs.13990.00 lakhs and Rs.6636.00 lakhs under Non-Plan and Plan
respectively which also recommended by the Section 8(1) Committee. The Government sanctioned a
grant of Rs.12500.00 lakhs (including the unutilized amount of Rs.438.84 lakhs during the financial
year 2010-2011) under Non-Plan and the Plan RE allocation was fixed at Rs.3793.26 lakhs (including
the unutilized amount of Rs.1793.26 lakhs during the financial year 2010-2011). The expenditure
during report was well within the budget allocation sanctioned by the Government. The Audited Annual
Accounts of the Institute for the year 2011-2012 have been furnished in Part IV of this report.
Major Construction / renovation works taken up by the Institute during 2010 - 2011
Kolkata
Construction of Platinum Jubilee Academic Building at ISI.
The Institute started the work of construction of the Platinum Jubilee Academic Building during the
year 2006-2007. The building has been completed and already occupied by the user units. The work
of the Auditorium has been completed during this financial year.
An amount of Rs.52.14 lakhs has been paid to the agencies and the consultant regarding the subject
work.
Construction of ISEC Building at 202 Campus.
The Institute took up the construction of the ISEC Building at 202 Campus with an intention of
providing all the facilities under one roof for the ISEC students. The building will have facilities like
Class Rooms, Seminar Hall, Library, Accommodation for Students and Visiting Faculties, Dining Hall,
Recreation Facilities, etc. The structural work has been completed and the finishing works like air-
conditioning, installation of lifts are under progress. The tendering of fire-fighting and fire-alarm system
and LAN are under progress. The work order for the interior works is to be placed shortly.
An amount of Rs.320.18 lakhs has been paid to the agencies and consultants regarding the subject
work.
Major Renovation of the New Guest House and Research Scholars' Hostel and ISEC Hostel
The renovation work of the New Guest House was taken up during this financial year. The work
considered the overall repair and painting of the rooms and bathrooms. The tiles and sanitary-
plumbing fixtures of the bathrooms were completely replaced and the entrance lobby upgraded.
The total exterior plastering of the building has been removed, re-plastered and painted. An amount of
Rs.34.36 lakhs spent for side renovation work.
The renovation work of the Research Scholars' Hostel and ISEC Hostel was completed during this
financial year. The work considered the overall internal repair and painting of the rooms, verandahs
and bathrooms. The tiles and sanitary-plumbing fixtures of the bathrooms were completely changed.
The dining halls of both the hostels have been upgraded to provide more efficient area management.
An amount of Rs.55.53 lakhs has spent for said renovation work.
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Delhi
Land and Construction
During the financial year 2011-2012, two Works Advisory Committee meetings took place on May, 03,
2011 and January, 25 and 27, 2012.
Following civil and electrical activities took place during 2011-2012:-
Electrical:
1. Installation of Street light for jogging tract.

2. Renovation of electrical fittings in faculty block.
3. Supply installation testing and commissioning of 320 KVA D/G set.
4. Rewiring work in flats A, B, C and D (work in progress).
Civil:
1. Construction of second phase of Mess Building

2. One badminton court completely renovated.
Bangalore
During the year 2011-2012, the following activities were taken up at Bangalore Centre.
A – Construction:
nd
1. Construction of 2 floor of B. Math. Hostel was completed and the floor was used for newly
enrolled B. Math. students in the academic year 2011- 2012.
2. Painting and repair works of all the buildings of the campus were mostly completed.
3. Construction of New Research Scholar Hostel Building started as per schedule and the work
is in progress.
4. Plan and estimate prepared by the Architect was approved by WAC for the construction of 2nd
floor to Guest House.
5. Construction of new Badminton Court, a shed (hanger type) over existing badminton court
etc., started in order to extend more sports activities to the students in the campus.
Tezpur
The North East Centre of ISI was inaugurated by the then Hon’ble Finance Minister of India, Shri.
rd
Pranab Mukherjee on 23 July 2011.
Acquisition of Land and constructions: - ISI-NE Centre took the possession of 25 acres of land in
Village Punioni in Tezpur from the Govt. of Assam during the previous year for its permanent site.
The construction of boundary wall is in progress.
Society Type Activities
Membership: April 2011 – March 2012
1) During the period 40 persons became Ordinary Members of the Institute.

2) 32 Ordinary Members became Life Members of the Institute.
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The membership position as on 31 March, 2012 is as follows:
Ordinary Members - 535

Life Members - 944
Institutional Members - 03
_______
Total - 1482_
Finance Committee Meetings: The Finance Committee met twice on 24th October, 2011. Besides the
decisions taken on various financial matters, the Finance Committee recommended RE 2011-12 and
th
BE 2012-13 (both Plan and Non-Plan) in its meeting held on 24 October, 2011. The Annual Report
including Audited Statement of Accounts for the year 2010-2011 was considered and recommended in
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the meeting of the Finance Committee held on 24 October, 2011.
th
Council Meetings: During the period under report (2011-12), the Council met three times on 17 July,
th th
2011, 4 November, 2011 and 4 February, 2012 to take decisions on various academic and
administrative matters of the Institute. The Budget Proposals of the Institute both for Plan and Non-
Plan (RE for 2011-12 and BE for 2012-13) were considered in the meetings of the Council held on 4th
th
November, 2011 as recommended by the Finance Committee in its meeting held on 24 October,
2011. The Annual Report including the Audited Statement of Accounts for the year 2010-2011 was
th
considered and approved by the Council in its meeting held on 4 November, 2011.
A list containing the names of the President of the Institute, Chairman and members of the Council of
the Institute and lists of members of different committees constituted by the Council are given in the
Back Cover page and in Chapter 12 respectively.
Annual General Meetings: During the period under report (2011-12), the General Body of the Institute
th
met on 18 November, 2011. The Annual Report of the Institute for the year 2010-2011 and Audited
Statement of Accounts for the year 2010-2011 together with the Auditor’s comments and replies of the
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Administration thereto were adopted in the meeting of the General Body held on 18 November, 2011.
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11. LIST OF MEMBERS OF THE ACADEMIC COUNCIL AND OTHER

COMMITTEES OF THE INSTITUTE AS ON 31 MARCH 2012
Academic Council
Bimal K. Roy, Director (Chairman)
B.P. Sinha, Dean of Studies (Convener)
S.M. Srivastava, Ratan Dasgupta, Alok Goswami, R.B. Bapat, N.S. Narasimha Sastry, S.
Ramasubramanian, T.S.S.R.K. Rao, Rajendra Bhatia, Bhaskar Bagchi, Sunanda Bagchi, V.R.
Padmawar, Pl. Muthuramalingam, V. Pati, Rahul Roy, Probal Chaudhuri, Arup Bose, Rana Barua,
Mohana Delampady, B. Rajeev, Isha (Bagai) Dewan, Abhay Gopal Bhatt, Goutam Mukherjee,
Amartya Kumar Dutta, B.V. Rajarama Bhat, Pradipta Bandyopadhyay, Debashish Goswami, Arup
Kumar Pal, Anish Sarkar, B. Sury, Gopal Krishna Basak, K. Ramamurthy, C. Robinson Edward Raja,
Siva Athreya, Antar Bandyopadhyay.
Shibdas Bandyopadhyay, Tapas Kumar Chandra, Pabitra Pal Choudhury, P.S.S.N.V.P. Rao, Bimal Kr.
Roy, Ashis SenGupta, Arun Kumar Adhikary, Anup Dewanji, Rita Saha Ray, Debasis Sengupta,
Debapriya Sengupa, Tapas Samanta, Subir Kumar Bhandari, Mausumi Bose, Palash Sarkar,
Ayanendranath Basu, Smarajit Bose, Subhamoy Maitra, Atanu Biswas, Amita Pal, Sourabh
Bhattacharya.
Manabendu Chattopadhyay, Krishna Majumder, N.S.S. Narayana, Monoranjan Pal, Satya Ranjan
Chakravarty, Abhirup Sarkar, Nityananda Sarkar, Amita Majumder, Arunava Sen, Bharat Ramaswami,
Tarun Kabiraj, Satya P. Das, Madhura Swaminathan, V.K. Ramachandran, Manash Ranjan Gupta,
Priyadarshi Banerjee, Anjali Ghosh, Bhola Nath Ghosh, E. Somanathan, Prabal Roy Chowdhury,
Probal Dasgupta.
Anjana Dewanji, Sabyasachi Bhattacharya, Ranjan Gupta, Bibha Karmakar, Premananda Bharati,
Parasmani Dasgupta, Barun Mukhopadhyay, Subrata Kr. Roy, Bidyut Roy, Joydev Chattopadhyay,
Indranil Mukhopadhyay, B. Mohan Reddy.
Sisir Roy, Guruprasad Kar, P.K. Das, Dilip Saha, Pinaki Roy, Dhurjati Prasad Sengupta, Barnana Roy,
Banasri Basu, Chandan Chakraborty, Parthasarathi Ghosh, Subir Ghosh.
Jayasree Datta Gupta, Bhabani Prasad Sinha, Sankar Kumar Pal, Bidyut Baran Chowdhuri, Sambhu
Nath Biswas, Bhargab Bikram Bhattacharya, Malay Kr. Kundu, Kumar Sankar Roy, Subhas Chandra
Nandy, Nabanita Das, Nikhil Ranjan Pal, Swapan Kr. Parui, Aditya Bagchi, Srimanta Pal, A.R.D.
Prasasd, Sushmita Mitra, Bhabatosh Chanda, C.A. Murthy, Ashish Ghosh, Dipti Prasad Mukherjee,
Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay, Susmita Sur-Kolay, Krishnendu Mukhopadhyay, Sandip Das, Arijit
Bishnu, Umapada Pal, Sarbani Palit, K.S. Raghavan.
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Anup Majumdar, Kalyan Kumar Chowdhury, Ashim Roy Chowdhury, P.K. Perumallu, Amitava
Bandyopadhyay, U. Haridas Acharya, A.L.N. Murthy, G.S.R. Murthy, Ranjan Sett, Dipak Kr. Manna,
Samir Kr. Neogy, Arup Ranjan Mukhopadhyay, Abhijit Gupta, Arup Kumar Das, Prasun Das, Md. Zafar
Anis.
Chief Librarian
Computer and Statistical Service Centre (CSSC)
Subhas Ch. Kundu, Amitava Datta, Debashis Roy.
Member-Secretary, ISEC
Prasanta Pathak.
Other Committees of the Institute
A. Finance Committee
Director (Chairman), Debapriya Sengupta, S.M. Srivastava, Amita Majumder, Amitava

Bandyopadhyay, Alok Goswami, Anjana Dewanji, Somnath Roy, Head, Delhi Centre, Head, Bangalore
Centre, Head, Chennai Centre (from 04.11.2011), Head, North-East Centre, Tezpur, Assam (from
04.11.2011), Government Representative (Ministry of Statistics & Programme Implementation),
Government Representative (Ministry of Finance), Chief Executive (Admn. & Finance), Sudip
Chakraborty (Convener).
B. Sankhya Editorial Committee
Editor-in-chief, Sankhya, Series A and Series B:
Professor B.L.S. Prakasa Rao (University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad)
Joint Editors, Sankhya, Series A:
Sourav Chatterjee (New York University, New York, USA), Subhashis Ghoshal (North Carolina State
University, Raleigh, USA), Hemant Iswaran (Univesity of Miami, Miami, USA) and Alok Goswami (ISI,
Kolkata).
Joint Editors, Sankhya, Series B:
Nilanjan Chatyterjee (National Cancer Institute, Washington DC, USA), Hemant Iswaran, (University of
Miami, Miami, USA), Lijian Yang, (Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA) and Atanu Biswas
(ISI, Kolkata),
Co-Editors, Sankhya Series A:
Barry Arnold (University of California, Riverside, CA, USA), Zhidong Bai (National University of
Singapore, Singapore), Moulinath Banerjee (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA), Eduard
Belitser (Technical University of Einhoven, Netherlands), Amarjit Budhiraja (University of North
Caroline, Chapel Hill, USA), Thomas Gerds (University of Copenhagen, Denmark), Chii-Ruey Hwang
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(Institute of Mathematics, Academia Sinica, Taipai, Taiwan), Hannes Leeb (University Vienna, Vienna,
Austria), Ranjan Maitra (Iowa State University, Ames, IA, USA), Arnba Maity (North Carolina State
University, USA), Kanchan Mukherjee (The University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK), Debashis Paul
(University of California, Davis, USA), Igor Pruenster (University of Turin, Turin, Italy), R.V.
Ramamoorthi (Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA), Anindya Roy (University of Maryland-
Baltimore Country, USA), Sujit K. Sahu (University of Southampton, UK), Bodhisattva Sen (Columbia
University, USA), Anand Vidyashankar (George Mason University, USA), Min Yang (University of
Missouri, USA), Mahmoud Zarepour (University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada) and S.
Ramasubramanian (ISI, Bangalore).
Co-Editors, Sankhya Series B:
Tathagata Bandyopadhyay (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, India), Uttam

Bandyopadhyay (University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India), Tsung-Chi Cheng (National Chengchi
Universityl Taipei, Taiwan), Yi-Hau Chen (Academia Sinica, Taipei Taiwan), Holger Dette
(Ruhr_Universitat, Bochum, Germany), Sarat Dass (Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA),
Gauri Sankra Datta (University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA), Jesus Fernando Lopez Fidalgo
(University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain), Jianhua Guo (Northeast Normal University, China),
KyungMann Kim (University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA), Fumiyasu Komaki (University of Tokyo,
Tokyo, Japan), Tatyana Krivobokova (Georg-August University, Goettingen, Germany), Partha Lahiri
(University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA), Michael Leblanc (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research
Center, USA), Maria del Carmen Pardp Llorente (Complutense University of Madrid, Spain), Arnab
Maity (North Carolina State University, Raleigh, USA), Saumen Mandal (University of Manitoba,
Manitoba, Canada), Thomas Metthew (University of Maryland, Baltimore, USA), Seng Huat Ong
(University of Malaya, Malayasia), Shyamal D. Peddada (Research Triangle Park, NC, USA),
Piercesare Secchi (Politechnico di Milano, Milan, Italy), J. Sunil Rao (University of Miami, Miami,
USA), Jaya Satagopalan (Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, USA), Mervyn Silvapulle (Monash
University, Australia), Peter Song (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA), Stefan A. Sperlich
(Georg-August Universittat Gottingen, Switzerland), Lily Wang (University of Georgia), Lan Xue
(Oregon State Unive3rsity, Oregon, USA) and Yong Zhou (Academy of Mathematics and Systems
Science, Chineses Academy of Sciences, China).
C. Works Advisory Committees
Kolkata
Ajay K. Adhikari (Chairman), Bhabatosh Chanda (Vice-Chairman), Smarajit Bose, Swapan Parui,
Bidyut Roy, Mahua Datta, Sushmita Mukhopadhyay, Sandip Mitra, Prabir Chattoraj, Expert (Civil),
Expert (Architect), Expert (Electrical Engg.), Chief Executive (A & F), Amitava Mukherjee, In-Charge,
E.M.U., Arindam Mukherjee (Convener).
Delhi
T. S. Ratnam (Chairman), R.B. Bapat, Satya P. Das, Abhay G. Bhat, Chetan Ghate, Samir K. Neogy,
N. Nagarajan (Electrical), Rajinder Kalla, (Civil), Vishwa Bandhu, S.S. Sethi (Convener).
Bangalore
T. Krishnan (Chairman), M.K. Prapulla Chandra, T.J. Ramamurthy, Chief Engineer (C&B) [or his
nominee], Head, Bangalore Centre, Head, Stat-Math Unit, Head, DRTC, Head, SQC & OR Unit, Head,
Systems Science Informatics Unit (SSIU), Devika P. Madalli, Deputy Chief Executive (A) [Convener].
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D. Ph.D. / D.Sc. Committee
Statistics
Bimal K. Roy, Director (Chairman), Dean of Studies, Rahul Roy, S. Ramasubramanian, Gopal K.
Basak, Subhas C. Nandy, Anup Dewanji, Ayanendranath Basu, Mausumi Bose (Convener).
Mathematics
Bimal K. Roy, Director (Chairman), Dean of Studies, Rana Barua, S.M. Srivastava, Goutam
Mukherjee, Rahul Roy, Abhay G. Bhat, B.V. Rajaram Rao, Tapas Samanta, T.S.S.R.K. Rao, Alok
Goswami, (Convener).
Computer Science
Bimal K. Roy, Director (Chairman), Dean of Studies, Bhargab B. Bhattacharya, Bidyut B. Choudhuri,
Rana Barua, C.A. Murthy, Bhabatosh Chanda, Susmita Sur-Kolay, Palash Sarkar (Convener).
Quantitative Economics
Bimal K. Roy, Director (Chairman), Dean of Studies, Satya R. Chakravarty, Satya P. Das, Probal
Roychoudhury (in place of Satya P. Das from 04.02.2012), Manas Ranjan Gupta, Arunava Sen,
Bharat Ramaswamy, Madhura Swaminathan, Gopak K. Basak, Abhirup Sarkar (Convener).
SQC & OR
Bimal K. Roy, Director (Chairman), Dean of Studies, Anup Dewanji, Sujit K. Majumder, Samir K.
Neogy, Anup Majumder, D.K. Manna, G.S.R. Murthy (Convener).
E. Policy Planning and Evaluation Committee (PPEC)
Chairman of ISI or his nominee (Chairman), Bimal K. Roy, Director (Vice-Chairman), Director General,
C.S.O., Financial Advisor, Ministry of Statistics & P.I., Avijit Sen, T. Jayaraman, Kalyan B. Sinha,
Rahul Mukherjee, Manindra Agarwal, Shibdas Bandyopadhyay, Rajendra Bhatia, Bhargab B.
Bhattacharya (Convener).
F. Technical Advisory Committees of different Divisions
Bimal K. Roy, Director (Chairman), R.V. Gurjar, Rahul Mukherjee, P. Sankaran, A.R. Sastry,
Tathagata Bandyopadhyay, Goutam Mukherjee, Professor-in-Charge (Convener).
Bimal K. Roy, Director (Chairman), Rahul Mukherjee, Tathagata Bandyopadhyay, Jaikumar

Radhakrishnan, V. Arvind, S.K. Mullick, Subhamoy Maitra, Professor-in-Charge (Convener).
Bimal K. Roy, Director (Chairman), Subhasis Chaudhuri, Pushpak Bhattacharyya, Sandeep Sen,
Partha P. Chakrabarti, Amitabha Chatterjee, L.M. Patnaik, B.L. Deekshatulu, Subhas Ch. Nandy,
Professor-in-Charge (Convener).
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Bimal K. Roy, Director (Chairman), Kalames Kar, R. Ramanathan, S. Dey, S.P. Moulik, I.B. Singh,
Tapes Chandra Lahiri, Sisir Roy, Professor-in-Charge (Convener).
Bimal K. Roy, Director (Chairman), P.K. Singh, Sunirmal Chanda, Subrata Sinha, Kasturi Datta, Anup
Kapur, Karmeshu, R.N.K. Bamezai, Anjana Dewanji, Professor-in-Charge (Convener).
Bimal K. Roy, Director (Chairman), Jayati Ghosh, Rajni Palriwala, Sulabha Parasuraman, Ayesha
Kidwai, Minati Panda, Madhura Swaminathan, Professor-in-Charge (Convener).
Bimal K. Roy, Director (Chairman), Sujit Basu, Manish Gupta, Anjan Roy, Bhaskar B. Idage, Richard
Lobo, Arunansu Haldar, Amitava Bandyopadhyay, Head, SQC & OR Division (Convener).
Bimal K. Roy, Director (Chairman), Sudhendu Mandal, Pravakar Rath, Swati Bhattacharya, Arup Roy
Choudhury, Chief Librarian (Convener).
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EDITORIAL BOARD
Amita Majumder ---- Chairperson

Mahuya Datta ---- Member
Amita Pal ---- Member
Dipti Prasad Mukherjee ---- Member
Preeti Parashar ---- Member
Susmita Mukhopadhyay ---- Member
Arup Ranjan Mukhopadhyay ---- Member
Arup Roy Choudhury ---- Member
Nibedita Ganguly ---- Member
S.P. Das ---- Member
N.S.N. Sastry ---- Member
P.S.S.N.V.P. Rao ---- Member
S.M. Bendre ---- Member
S.K. Iyer ---- Member
Pradip Roy ---- Member-Convener
Acknowledgements
The Editorial Board gratefully acknowledges the assistance rendered by the staff
of the CE (A&F)’s Office, Public Relations Unit, Publication & Printing Unit and
Reprography Unit in the preparation of this Annual Report.

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PRESIDENT OF THE INSTITUTE, CHAIRMAN AND OTHER MEMBERS OF

THE COUNCIL AS ON MARCH 31, 2012

1. Chairman: Shri Pranab Mukherjee, Hon’ble Finance Minister, Government of India.

Representatives of Government of India

Representative of the Planning Commission

Representative of the University Grants Commission

Scientists co-opted by the Council

Elected representatives of the Institute members not employed in the Institute

Elected representatives of the employees of the Institute

Officers of the Institute

203 Barrackpore Trunk Road

Brief History of the Institute iii

1. Teaching & Training 1

Degrees and other Courses 1

2. Research and other Scientific Activities 8

Theoretical Statistics and Mathematics Division 8

Applied Statistics Division 13

Applied Statistics Unit (ASU) 13

Computer and Communication Sciences Division 23

Physics and Earth Sciences Division 43

Geological Studies Unit (GSU) 43

Biological Sciences Division 51

Social Sciences Division 58

Economic Research Unit (ERU) 58

Statistical Quality Control and Operations Research Division 78

SQC & OR Unit, Bangalore 78

Library, Documentation and Information Sciences Division 87

Centre for Soft Computing Research: A National Facility 94

Computer and Statistical Services Centre 99

Internally Funded Projects 100

Externally Funded Projects 105

North East Projects 115

4. Symposia, Conferences, Workshops, Lectures and Seminars 116

Symposia and Conferences 116

5. Publication of Sankhyā 141

6. Scientific Papers and Publications 142

Books Published 142

Part II. Visiting Scientists, Honours, Awards and Assignments

7. Visiting Scientists 200

8. Honours and Awards 210

9. Editorial and other Scientific Assignments 212

Editorial Assignments 212

Part III. Administration and Office Bearers

10. General Administration 243

11. List of Members of the Academic Council and other 250

March, 31, 2012 Bimal K. Roy

Presidents of the Institute

Chairmen of the Institute

1 Shri B. Rama Rao 1954

Directors of the Institute

1 Prof. P. C. Mahalanobis Dec 1931 - June 1972

List of persons awarded the D.Sc. (Honoris Causa) by the Institute

February 1962 Prof. Satyendra Nath Bose, Prof. Ronald A. Fisher,

Degree, Associateship and Training Courses

B. Stat. (Hons.): Subhabrata Sen M. Stat.: Riddhipratim Basu

M. S. (QE): Swagata Majumder

Number of students passed during 2011 and

Number of candidates awarded degrees/ associatiships in the